Upshaw Tungsten Mines Group

Occurrence in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold, Molybdenum
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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095429
MRDS ID M050213
Record type Site
Current site name Upshaw Tungsten Mines Group
Alternate or previous names Gold Circle

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.87041, 32.83927 (WGS84)
Elevation 1143
Relative position 1/2 MI S OF ANTELOPE PEAK, 11.5 MI SW OF WINKLEMAN

Site location context

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 007S 014E 11 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Molybdenum Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
    Rock unit name Oracle (Ruin) Granite
    Rock description Oracle (Ruin) Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.87041, 32.83927

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Nnw Trending Block Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N70E
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 0.41M
    Length 76.2M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veinlets

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1925
Discoverer C.B. Upshaw, G.E. Upshaw, Robert Gill

Mining district

District name Gold Circle District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 58.83M
    Overall depth 22.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • 75 FT INCLINED SHAFT, 25 AND 18 FT VERTICAL SHAFTS, 25 FT ADIT, 5 0 FT OF DRIFTING, 10 SHALLOW OPEN CUTS

Comments on development

  • 6 UNPATENTED LODE CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DALE, 1959, USBM RI 5516

  • Deposit

    WILSON, 1941, ABM BULL 148

  • Deposit

    ABGMT FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    KRIEGER, 1974, USGS MAP GQ-1109

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-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.