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Bobtail Mine

Occurrence in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper, Uranium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048224
MRDS ID M800315
Record type Site
Current site name Bobtail Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.13469, 35.33808 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 20 MI NW OF KINGMAN; 1/2 MI SSE OF DETROIT GROUP, Placed On Shaft Sumbol N Of Jamison Mine

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cerbat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Davis Dam(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sacramento Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

Bureau of Land Management AZ BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Mohave

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 023N 017W 31 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • ON W FLANKS OF CERBAT MOUNTAINS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO RADIOACTIVE MINERALS WERE IDENTIFIED, PRESUMED TO BE URANINITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.13469, 35.33808
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Prominent Shear Down Center Of Vein

Ore body information

  • Strike N-S
    Dip 85E
    Length 6.1M
    Width 1.52M

Comments on the geologic information

  • URANIUM WAS DEPOSITED LATE, FOLLOWING RECURRENT MOVEMENT ALONG FAULT FISSURE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Wallapai District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Kenneth Kuencer
    First year 1953

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 167.64M
    Overall depth 26.52M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HART AND HETLAND, 1953, USAEC RME-4026

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-82 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-90 Bolm, Karen S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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