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Eleven and Celtic Group

Producer in Greenlee county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048285
MRDS ID M800412
Record type Site
Current site name Eleven and Celtic Group
Alternate or previous names Celtic Group, Veiled Prophet Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.33009, 33.13149 (WGS84)
Elevation 1804
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 2.5 MILES NE OF METCALF ALONG EAST SIDE OF PLACER GULCH, Used Blm District Sheet 839, 838 And Abgmt Clippings Files (Polaris Mining And Milling Co)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mitchell Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Francisco(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Greenlee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S;003S 029E 03;34,35 N2 (03); S2 (34); W2 (35); NE (35) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 30 VEILED PROPHET CLAIMS EXTEND FROM JUST NE OF ROCKY GULCH DIVIDE IN SECTION 3 THROUGH SOUTH HALF OF SECTION 34 AND NORTH HALF OF SECTION 35 BORDERING PLACER GULCH; UTM AND GEODETIC COORDINATED DESCRIBE CENTRAL ADIT IN CLUSTER OF PROSPECTS IN NE QUARTER OF SECTION 35 (THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL CELTIC GROUP CLAIMS CENTRAL ADIT IN CLUSTER OF PROSPECTS IN NE QUARTER OF SECTION 35 (THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL CELTIC GROUP CLAIMS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Brochantite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Malachite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Orthoclase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Surface Oxidation To Unknown Depths; Porphyry Greatly Bleached By Sericitization And Extensively Cemented By Quartz Veinlets

Analytical data

Result 1921 ASSAY VALUES AVERAGED 9% CU AND 17 OZ AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Morenci Granite Porphyry;Precambrian Granite Basement
    Rock description Morenci Granite Porphyry;Precambrian Granite Basement
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 55.5
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.33009, 33.13149
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne Trending Narrow Porphyry Dikes; Veins Consist Of Many Very Sharply Defined Fissure Planes Striking Nne
Type of structure Local
Structure description Monzonite Porphyry Fragmented By Masses Of Quartzite, Limestone, And Shale

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR BODIES OF LOW-GRADE ORE
    Strike NE
    Dip 70NW
    Width 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ne Trending Well-Defined Fissure Veins Along Contacts In Porphyry Stock

Comments on the geologic information

  • SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF CRUSHING OF GRANITE AND PORPHYRY DURING FISSURE FORMATION; REGIONAL SURFACE ORE DEPOSITS CONSIST OF MALACHITE AND OTHER OXIDIZED MINERALS WHICH ARE REPLACED AT DEPTHS OF 200 FT OR LESS BY SECONDARY CHALCOCITE; PRIMARY ORES AT DEPTH CONSIST OF PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1906

Mining district

District name Copper Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDED ONE 65 FT SHAFT

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED OWEN MORRIS, W.H. MCDONALD, DAN LYNCH, CELTIC COPPER CO, ARCHIBALD MORRISON, CAPTAIN THOMSON

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, CELTIC COPPER CO AND POLARIS MINING AND MILLING CO

  • Deposit

    BLM DISTRICT SHEET 839

  • Deposit

    STEVENS, H.J., 1909, THE COPPER HANDBOOK, VOL. IX, PAGE 500, CELTIC COPPER CO

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 43, P. 362

  • Deposit

    BENNETT, 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, AZ: MS THESIS UNIV OF ARIZ, 153 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 16 UNPATENTED CLAIMS TOTALLING 320 ACRES COMPRISED THE CELTIC GROUP, WHICH LATER BECAME PART OF THE VEILED PROPHET GROUP OF 30 PATENTED CLAIMS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-81 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

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