Bell and Pinkard Group

Producer in Greenlee county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
Sections on this page
  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. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048287
MRDS ID M800415
Record type Site
Current site name Bell and Pinkard Group
Alternate or previous names Bell Group, Dover Copper Group Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.39926, 33.06927 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 2.5 MILES WEST OF MORENCI AT THE MOUTH OF PINKARD GULCH., Used Blm District Sheet 841 And Usgs Professional Paper 43 (1905)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copperplate Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-San Carlos Reservoir(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 029E 19 N2 OF N2 OF SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • BELL CLAIMS FORM A CLUSTER OF PROSPECTS AT THE CONFLUENCE OF PINKARD AND GOLD GULCHES AND ARE ALSO LOCATED ON THE WEST AND EAST BLUFFS OVERLOOKING THE MOUTH OF PINKARD GULCH; ABOVE LOCATION COORDINATES DESCRIBE THE CENTRAL ADIT WITHIN THIS CLUSTER. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limestone Greatly Altered To Epidote And Magnetite With Copper Stains And Pyrite; At The Mouth Of Pinkard Gulch, Limestone Is Locally Altered To Garnet Near Porphyry Contacts; Vein Follows Epidotized Contact Of A Porphyry Dike In Limestone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Morenci Granite Porphyry
    Rock description Morenci Granite Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 55.5
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Pinkard Sandstone And Shale;Longfellow Limestone
    Rock description Pinkard Sandstone And Shale;Longfellow Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.39926, 33.06927

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Irregularly Jointed Porphyry Caused By Intrusive Action Rather Than By Faulting
Type of structure Local
Structure description Principal Intrusions Occurred Parallel To Planes Of Sedimentation Which Dip 10-30 Sw

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
  • General form LINEAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Irregular Deposits Of Gold Are Contained In Limonite Along The Vein

Comments on the geologic information

  • MORENCI GRANITE PORPHYRY OCCUPIES THE MAJORITY OF THE UPPER GOLD GULCH VALLEY AND IS EXTENSIVELY INTERBEDDED WITH SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES AS STOCKS, SHEETS, AND DIKES. PORPHYRY IS GREATLY DISINTERGRATED, UNLIKE HARD ROCK FORMING PRECIPITOUS GULLIES IN OTHER REGIONS OF THE DISTRICT. REGIONAL FAULTING PRIOR TO INTRUSION AND MINERALIZATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1949
Year of last production 1951

Mining district

District name Copper Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Dover Copper Mining Co ; Principal Owner: W. V. Tiscornia
    First year 1957

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT OCCURRED ON BELL CLAIM NO. 2 AND 4, LOCATED IN CENTER OF SECTION 19.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED CY AND MANUEL GOMEZ; BELL CLAIMS I TO II PATENTED BY DOVER COPPER MINING CO; BELL PROPERTY IS ADJACENT TO DOVER COPPER MINING CO GROUPS OF TUCKY AND ST. JOE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA, UNDER DOVER COPPER.

  • Deposit

    BLM DISTRICT SHEET 841.

  • Deposit

    USGS P 43, P. 292-298.

  • Deposit

    BENNETT, K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METRALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, DOVER COPPER MINING CO.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BELL GROUP CLAIMS LOCATED ON OR NEAR THE ISABELLA VEIN.
Deposit SEE ALSO: DOVER COPPER GROUP ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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