Picacho View

Past Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Beryllium, Feldspar, Lithium, Mica, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Tungsten
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10162111
MAS/MILS ID 0040251836
Record type Site
Current site name Picacho View
Alternate or previous names Buena Vista, Homestead, Monster, Starlight, Anderson Pegmatites

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.55824, 33.96196 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Picacho(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Phoenix North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hassayampa(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower 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 Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 007 N 003 W 10 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Beryllium Critical Tertiary
Feldspar Tertiary
Lithium Critical Tertiary
Mica Tertiary
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Primary
Tantalum Critical Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Albite Unknown
Allanite Unknown
Arsenopyrite Unknown
Beryl Unknown
Biotite Unknown
Columbite Unknown
Fluorite Unknown
Galena Unknown
Garnet Unknown
Hemimorphite Unknown
Lepidolite Unknown
Microcline Unknown
Muscovite Unknown
Pyrite Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Sphalerite Unknown
Tantalite Unknown
Tourmaline Unknown
Wulfenite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.55824, 33.96196

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 73M
    Width 43M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 PEGMATITE
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin MAGMATIC DIFFER
    Primary Ore Control FRACTURING
    Secondary Ore Control BEDDING
    Date of Last Modification 910923

Comments on the geologic information

  • OTHER MINERALS PRESENT INCLUDE CERUSSITE, MOLYBDITE, AND PERTHITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1939
Year of first production 1942

Mining district

District name White Picacho

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Rupert Spivey

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B. TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, AND MOHAVE

  • Deposit

    COUNTIES, ARIZONA. BUMINES IC 8078, 1961, 104 PP.

  • Deposit

    JAHNS, R.H. PEGMATITE DEPOSITS OF THE WHITE PICACHO

  • Deposit

    DISTRICT, MARICOPA AND YAVAPAI COUNTIES, ARIZONA. AZ

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 162, 1952, 105 PP.

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. MINERAL RESOURCES DATA SYSTEM

  • Deposit

    (MRDS, COMPUTER DATA BASE). ALL RECORDS PERTAINING TO

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA; AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST FROM U.S. GEOLOGICAL

  • Deposit

    SURVEY, RESTON, VA.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE STRIKE OF THE MINERALIZATION IS N55E; DIP IS 35 TO 55 S.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-SEP-1991 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.