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Newsboy Mine

Past Producer in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Quartz, Vanadium, Manganese, Zinc, Lead
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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. Ownership information
  18. Reserves and resources
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. General comments
  23. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10056391
MRDS ID TC00057
Record type Site
Current site name Newsboy Mine
Alternate or previous names Pitt Mine, G.W. Mining and Minerals Co., Charles Black Claims, Gnome Development, Grande Group, Newsboy Group
Related records 10113858

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.66964, 33.84839 (WGS84)
Elevation 567
Relative position 4 MILES WEST OF MORRISTOWN; 1.4 MILES NORTH OF RED CLIFF. ABOUT 0.5 MILE WEST OF HASYAMPA RIVER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wickenburg SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Phoenix North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hassayampa(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(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 Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 006N 004W 22 SE OF SW OF NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • WEST SIDE OF AGUA FRIA RIVER; SOUTHEAST OF THE MONTAZUMA MINE. THE DEPOSIT IS REACHED BY LEAVING ROUTE 60 AT MORRISTOWN AND DRIVING TWO MILES SW ON THE UNPAVED GATES ROAD TO THE E BANK OF THE HASSAYAMMPA RIVER. FINAL ACCESS TO THE PROPERTY IS VIA A TRACK ACROSS THE USUALLY-DRY BED OF THE RIVER. THE CENTER OF THE DRILL-DEFINED ORE BODY IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 1500 FEET BEYOND A CATTLE GUARD AT THE WEST BANK OF THE RIVER. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Quartz Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Gold Ore
Vanadinite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Kaolinite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Alteration Assemblages Include Quartz-Kaolinite-Alunite, Kaolinite-Iron Oxide, And Silica.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.66964, 33.84839
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Tert Volcanic Rocks Overlie Prec Schist. Volcanic Rocks Trend Nw, Dip Ne
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults

Ore body information

  • General form SEAMS, TABULAR
    Strike N60E
    Dip 40-60 NE
    Length 304.8M
    Width 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Is In Brecciated Rhyolite Above Schist Footwall; Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • ALKALI RHYOTITES IN RANGE HAVE BEEN DATED AT 16-25 M.Y., SO MINERALIZATION AGE AND AGE OF RHYOLITE ARE PROBABLY MIOCENE. NO DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAP OF AREA.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1868
Year of last production 1942

Mining district

District name Vulture District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner G. W. Mining And Minerals Co. (Charles Black, Fred Plummer, Jerry Mills)
    Last year 1975
  • Type Operator
    Owner G. W. Mining And Minerals Co.
    First year 1975
  • Type Operator
    Owner Checkmate Resources
    First year 1975
  • Type Operator
    Owner Westmont Mining Co.
    First year 1975
  • Type Operator
    Owner Wounded Bull Resources, Inc.
    Year 1991

Comments on the production information

  • HIGHGRADE ORE OF UNKNOWN GRADE AND QUANTITY WAS MINED IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE PROPERTY (1914-1940).

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1984
    Total resources 13000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 1.411 g/mt Gold Major 1984
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1989
    Total resources 453000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 1.27 g/mt Gold Major 1989
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1986
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 0.847 g/mt Gold Major 1986
    Silver Ag 127.06 g/mt Silver Minor 1986

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • CUTOFF AT 0.6 G/T AU.
  • THE REPORTED FIGURE IS FOR DRILLED RESERVES-- A LARGER RESOURCE OF LOWER GRADE MATERIAL EXISTS. THE DEPOSIT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED BY REYNOLDS IN 1990 TO CONTAIN 2 TO 5 MILLION TONS OF ORE AT A GRADE OF 0.04 0Z/T AU.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 426.72M
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS INCLUDE OPEN PIT, A 480 FOOT ADIT, A 110 FOOT ADIT, A 200 FOOT DEEP INCLINED SHAFT WITH 500 FEET OF DRIFTING AT THE BOTTOM, SEVERAL SMALLER SHAFTS (45 FT, 22 FT, 40 FT)

Comments on development

  • CONSISTS OF 23 CLAIMS (UNPATENTED); OWNED IN 1940'S THROUGH 1960'S BY M.D. PITT; OPERATORS INCLUDE H.K. THOMAS, F.G. PEARSON, RHET DAWN, DAVID STRONG, E.S. CHAFEY, GEORGE DILLARD, F.G. MITTE; CONTROLLED AT SOME TIME BY THE GNOME DEVELOPMENT CO. GOLD IS CONCENTRATED IN SILICIFIED ROCKS ALONG AND FOR SEVERAL TENS OF FEET ABOVE THE BASAL FAULT. DRILL-HOLE ASSAYS CLEARLY INDICATE THAT THE ANOMALOUS GOLD CONCENTRATIONS EXTEND LOCALLY DOWNWARD INTO THE FOOTWALL PROTEROZOIC ROCKS. 1991 - PERMITTING, A FEASIBILITY STUDY, AN ORE RESERVE AUDIT, AND DETAILED METALLURGICAL TESTING IN PROGRESS. ; ECON.COM: STRIPPPING RATIO 2:1, 25% RECOVERY OF AG, 90% RECOVERY OF AU, CUTOFF GRADE 0.028-0.03 OZ/T. TESTS SHOWED RECOVERIES RANGING FROM 79% TO 87% AT -100 MESH. CYANIDE CONSUMPTIONS RANGED FROM 0.05 TO 0.33 KGS/T OF ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE

  • Deposit

    ABGMT - USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA (NEWSBOY AND G.W. MINING AND MINERALS CO.)

  • Deposit

    REHRIG, W.A., SHAFIQUIILLAH, M., AND DAMON, P.E., 1980, GEOCHRONOLOGY, GEOLOGY, AND LISTRIC FAULTING OF THE VULTURE MOUNTAINS, MARICOPA COUNTY: ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY DIGEST, V. 12, P. 89-110.

  • Deposit

    REYNOLDS, S.J., ED., 1990, FIELD GUIDE TO THE NEW WADDELL DAM SITE, VULTURE-HIEROGLYPHIC MOUNTAINS AREA, AND MYSTIC, CLEMONTINE, NEWSBOY, AND YARNELL GOLD DEPOSITS, CENTRAL ARIZONA: ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP, DECEMBER 8 AND 9, 1990.

  • Deposit

    THE MINING RECORD, 1991, FEASIBILITY STUDY ON NEWSBOY GOLD MINE NEARS COMPLETION: THE MINING RECORD, FEBRUARY 20, 1991, P. 51.

  • Deposit

    NIEMUTH, N.J., 1987, ARIZONA MINERAL DEVELOPMENT 1984-1986: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES DIRECTORY 29, 46 P.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.

  • Deposit

    SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    AZGS FILES

  • Reserve-Resource

    SAWYER AND OTHERS, 1992.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PIT FOR KAOLIN IS ADJACENT TO EAST OF SILVER WORKINGS. PRE-TERTIARY BEDROCK IN THE VULTURE MOUNTAINS CONSISTS OF PROTEROZOIC CRYSTALLINE ROCKS THAT ARE INTRUDED BY CRETACEOUS GRANITOIDS. THESE ROCKS ARE INTRUDED BY TERTIARY DIKES AND OVERLAIN BY EARLY TO MIDDLE MIOCENE SEDIMENTARY AND VOLCANIC ROCKS. THE VULTURE MOUNTAINS HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY SEVERE MIOCENE EXTENSION, AND MIDDLE MIOCENE AND OLDER ROCKS ARE TYPICALLY CUT BY SOUTHWEST-DIPPING NORMAL FAULTS AND TILTED MODERATELY TO STEEPLY TO THE EAST OR NORTHEAST. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit ORE IS IN BRECCIATED RHYOLITE ABOVE SCHIST FOOTWALL.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1982 Roth, Frances A. (Gest, Don E.) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-JUN-1989 Bolm, Karen S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1992 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

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