Sugarloaf Peak gold project

Prospect in La Paz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Reserves and resources
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400456
Record type Deposit
Current site name Sugarloaf Peak gold project

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.328, 33.638 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Paz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Middle Camp Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blythe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salton Sea(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tyson Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(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 La Paz

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 154
USGS model code 25e
Deposit model name Epithermal quartz-alunite Au
Mark3 model number 38

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.328, 33.638

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Prospect

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1987
    Total resources 54000000mt
    Remarks Estimate by N. E. Dausinger, Jr. as reported in the 2008 NI 43-101 report, p. 2.
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Silver 12 g/mt Silver Secondary 1987
    Gold 0.6 g/mt Gold Primary 1987

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Goldsmith, Locke B, 2008, Sugarloaf Peak Gold Project: NI 43-101 Technical Report prepared for Riverside Resources, Inc. 243 pages.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 26-OCT-10 Schruben, Paul 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.