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Table Mountain Mine

Past Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum, Vanadium, Barium-Barite
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Production statistics
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. General comments
  23. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103736
MRDS ID M050053
Record type Site
Current site name Table Mountain Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.48596, 32.81704 (WGS84)
Elevation 1451
Relative position 4.5 MI N OF COPPER CREEK, 1.25 MI NNE OF LITTLE TABLE MOUNTAIN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oak Grove Canyon(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)

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 Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 007S 018E 15,22 SE4 (15) OF NE4 (22) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR SYCAMORE CANYON. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Conichalcite Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Mimetite Ore
Vanadinite Ore
Willemite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Barite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Analytical data

Result ORE ON DUMP ASSAYED 2-3% CU, 0.5-0.6 OZ/T AG, 0.14-0.15 OZ/T AU. SORTED CHRYSOCOLLA AVERAGES 20-25% CU. SLAG ASSAYED 2.4% CU & 0.02 OZ/T AU. VEIN IN ADIT ASSAYED 3-4% PB, 1-2% VANADIC OXIDE, 2-3 OZ/T AG AND $5-18/T AU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Escabrosa Limestone
    Rock description Escabrosa Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.48596, 32.81704
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Nnw Trending Block Faulting
Type of structure Local
Structure description Vertical Fault Zones In Limestone

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, SPORADIC AND IRREGULAR PODS
    Thickness 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Jasperoid Breccia Layer, Fault & Joint Surfaces

Comments on the geologic information

  • ESCABROSA UNCONFORMABLY OVERLAIN BY GALIURO VOLCANICS. OXIDATION PROBABLY PRECEEDED ANDESITE FLOWS. DEPOSIT MAY BE EXOTIC/SECONDARILY DERIVED FROM EROSION OF NEARBY DEPOSITS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1877

Mining district

District name Table Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mollie Morgan, Evelyn Sandstrom, Mattie Young, Marion Gills
    First year 1964

Production statistics

  • Year 1900
    Period 1898-1900
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^7-9% Cu, $4/T Au
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Copper Copper 8wt-pct
  • Year 1928
    Period Prior To 1928
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^14% Cu - Crude Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Copper Copper 14wt-pct

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 12.19M

Comments on the workings information

  • ADITS AND DRIFTS. MAIN ADIT CAVED 200 FT FROM PORTAL

Comments on development

  • FIRST PROSPECTED FOR GOLD; 12 PATENTED CLAIMS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SIMONS, 1964, USGS PP 461.

  • Deposit

    KUHN, 1941, ECON GEOL V. 46, P. 512-538.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    SIMONS, 1964

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOME VEINS ARE ALONG FRACTURES. ORE FOUND IN JASPEROID LAYER UP T O 100 FT THICK.
Deposit THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M050053 WITH RE CORD M030469 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit Discovery Year: LATE 1870'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. 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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