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Castle Dome Gold Placers

Past Producer in Yuma county in Arizona, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102429
MRDS ID M001813
Record type Site
Current site name Castle Dome Gold Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.08967, 33.03007 (WGS84)
Elevation 671
Relative position ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF DOME.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yuma(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Slumgullion Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Trigo Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salton Sea(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Gila(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Yuma

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 04S 018W 34,35 SE OF NE (34); N CENTRAL (35) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE ON KOFA GAME RANGE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Silt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.08967, 33.03007
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Gold Occurs Mostly At Or Near Bedrock In Gulches

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1884

Mining district

District name Castle Dome District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on development

  • WORKED SPORADICALLY BY MEXICAN DRY WASHERS PRIOR TO 1900 AND BY OTHERS LATER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, G.M.; 1952; ARIZONA GOLD PLACERS AND GOLD PLACERING: ARIZONA B.M. BULLETIN 160, P. 23

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, G.M.; 1937; ARIZONA GOLD PLACERS AND GOLD PLACERING: ARIZ. B.M. BULLETIN 142, P. 22

  • Deposit

    ELSING, M.J.; HEINEMAN, R.E.S.; 1936; ARIZONA METAL PRODUCTION: ARIZ. B.M. BULLETIN 140, P. 104

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E.D., 1933, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 134.

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S.B., 1978, INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL TECHNOLOGY BULLETIN 192.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    A.B.M. BULLETIN 160, P. 23; A.B.M. BULLETIN 140, P. 104; KEITH (1978, P. 121).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SPOTTY PLACER GOLD OCCURS IN GRAVELS AT OR NEAR BEDROCK IN GULCHES DRAINING FROM NUMEROUS SMALL GOLD-BEARING VEINS IN BIG EYE MINE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1979 Hall, R. K. (Creasey, S. C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1993 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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