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Gowan Mine

Producer in Gila county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109782
MRDS ID M241204
Record type Site
Current site name Gowan Mine
Related records 10210111

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.42628, 34.26062 (WGS84)
Elevation 1225
Relative position 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITE HILLS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gila(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buckhead Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Payson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Holbrook(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Verde(hydrologic unit)

Verde(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tonto National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Gila

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 011N 009E 34 NW OF SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED NEXT TO EAST VERDE RIVER. INFO FROM LAND.ST :01; 41 (1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Payson Diorite
    Rock description Payson Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.42628, 34.26062
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Paleozoic Sandstone Overlies Prec Igneous Rocks, And Is Found On The Hanging Wall Of The Mineralized Vein
Type of structure Local
Structure description Immediately E Of Major Nw-Trending Fault Overlying Sediments Strike N20w, Dip 10n.

Ore body information

  • Strike N15W
    Dip 32 DEGREES NE
    Width 3.66M

Comments on the geologic information

  • TAPEATS SANDSTONE (CAMB) OVERLIES DEPOSIT. WILSON MAPS BOTH OVERLYING SYCAMORE CREEK SANDSTONE (DEV), AND REDWALL LIMESTONE (CARBONIFEROUS). NO RECENT DETAILED MAPPING, SEE CONWAY, 1976, FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGY NO MINERALIZATION IN OVERLYING SEDIMENTS. FAULT ASSOCIATED WITH DEPOSIT CUTS SEDIMENTS, BUT IT IS STILL POSSIBLE THAT MINERALIZATION WAS PRECAMBRIAN AND FAULT WAS A REACTIVATION OF A PRECAMBRIAN NW-TRENDING SHEAR. THIS IS THE ONLY MINE IN THE COUNTY AT WHICH THERE IS POSSIBLE EVIDENCE FOR POST PRECAMBRIAN MINERALIZATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1880
Year of first production 1932
Year of last production 1940

Mining district

District name Green Valley District

Comments on the workings information

  • APPROXIMATELY 800 FEET OF TUNNELS, APPROXIMATELY 250 FT OF SHAFTS, ALSO CONSIDERABLE STOPES AND RAISES.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED GOWAN, B. C. TAYLOR, 11 PATENTED CLAIMS, THREE UNPATENTED AND MILL SITE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ADMR GOWAN FILE.

  • Deposit

    USBM CLUSTER #1100.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT/USBM PRODUCTION DATA.

  • Deposit

    ARIZ BUR MINES BULL, P. 39.

  • Deposit

    CONWAY, C.M., 1976, PETROLOGY, STRUCTURE, AND EVOLUTION OF A PRECAMBRIAN VOLCANIC AND PLUTONIC COMPLEX, TONTO BASIN, GILA COUNTY ARIZONA, PHD THESIS, CALIF INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 Roth, Frances A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 22-MAY-1995 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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