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Best Claim

Prospect in Graham county in Arizona, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014809
MRDS ID D011763
Record type Site
Current site name Best Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.55898, 32.79039 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Graham(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

San Jose(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Safford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-San Carlos Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper 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 Graham

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
010S 025E 16 SE4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • JUST SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 266 AT THE ENTRANCE TO COVE CANYON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.55898, 32.79039
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pinaleno Mountains Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW PITS. DRILLED IN 1979.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THORMAN, C. H., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNPUBLISHED DATA, 1977-1979

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RADIOACTIVE NW-TRENDING SHEARS IN PRECAMBRIAN GRANITE NEAR CONTACT WITH MIDDLE TERTIARY GRANITIC PLUTON.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-84 Seanor, Clint E. (Worl, Ron) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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