Golden Comstock Mine

Occurrence in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095373
MRDS ID M030346
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Comstock Mine
Related records 10283604

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.77746, 34.8242 (WGS84)
Relative position 1 MI E OF VENTURE DUMP, 1.5 MI SW OF DIAMOND JOE PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Diamond Joe Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bagdad(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Sandy(hydrologic unit)

Bill Williams(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 017N 014W 29 E OF CENTER Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • S OF DELUGE WASH, E OF AMERICAN AND GREAT REPUBLIC MINES

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Diamond Joe Stock
    Rock description Diamond Joe Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.77746, 34.8242

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Barren N40w Fault Cuts Granite Stock With Ne Side Up, Exposing Bar Ren Roots

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Strong Quartz Veins

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Diamond Joe District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AZ BUR GEOL & MIN TECH FILE DAT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD W030346 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENU M FILE; CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.