| Deposit ID | 10095429 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M050213 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Upshaw Tungsten Mines Group |
| Alternate or previous names | Gold Circle |
| Geographic coordinates: | -110.87041, 32.83927 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1143 |
| Relative position | 1/2 MI S OF ANTELOPE PEAK, 11.5 MI SW OF WINKLEMAN |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Pinal(county)
Arizona(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Putnam Wash(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Mammoth(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Lower San Pedro(hydrologic unit)
San Pedro-Willcox(hydrologic accounting unit)
Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)
Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Arizona | Pinal |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gila and Salt River | 007S | 014E | 11 | Arizona |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Tungsten Critical | Primary |
| Gold | Primary |
| Molybdenum | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Gold | Ore |
| Powellite | Ore |
| Scheelite | Ore |
| Wolframite | Ore |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock | ||||||
| Rock unit name | Oracle (Ruin) Granite | ||||||
| Rock description | Oracle (Ruin) Granite | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite |
| (1) | -110.87041, 32.83927 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Nnw Trending Block Faulting |
| General form | TABULAR |
|---|---|
| Strike | N70E |
| Dip | VERTICAL |
| Thickness | 0.41M |
| Length | 76.2M |
| Depth to top | 0M |
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1925 |
| Discoverer | C.B. Upshaw, G.E. Upshaw, Robert Gill |
| District name | Gold Circle District |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 58.83M |
| Overall depth | 22.86M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M050213 |
DALE, 1959, USBM RI 5516
WILSON, 1941, ABM BULL 148
ABGMT FILE DATA
KRIEGER, 1974, USGS MAP GQ-1109
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | QUARTZ VEINS CONTAIN SPORADIC ORE MINERALS |
| Deposit | THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M050213 WITH RE CORD M030479 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-APR-1983 | Peterson, Jocelyn A. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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