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Red Lake Area

Occurrence in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Corundum, Kyanite
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10060260
MRDS ID TC10258
Record type Site
Current site name Red Lake Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.76413, 36.34694 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grand Gulch Bench(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Trumbull(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Grand Canyon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Grand Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(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 034N 014W 14 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Corundum Primary
Kyanite Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Andalusite Ore
Corundum Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1959
Discoverer Galbraith, F. W., And Brennan, G.H.

Mining district

District name Red Lake

Comments on the production information

  • FUTURE OF PRODUCTION OF ABRASIVE QUALITY CORUNDUM IN ARIZONA IS PRACTICALLY NIL. HOWEVER, SPECIMENS OF GEM (LARGELY SEMIPRECIOUS) QUALITY MAY STILL BE FOUND.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GALBRAITH, F.W., 3D, AND BRENNAN, G.H., 1959, MINERALS OF ARIZONA: ARIZONA UNIVERSITY (TUCSON) PHYS. SCI. BULL. 4, V. 30, NO. 2, 116 P.

  • Deposit

    LARRABEE, D.M., 1969, "CORUNDUM", IN ABM BULLETIN 180, USGS BULLETIN 871, P. 336.

  • Deposit

    PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERALS CARD FILE.

  • Deposit

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

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RED, BLUE, AND WHITE CORUNDUM ASSOCIATED WITH ANDALUSITE IN A PEGMATITE DIKE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1991 Carbonaro, Marguerite M. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1992 Orris, Greta J. 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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