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Rose Tungsten Mine

Past Producer in Gila county in Arizona, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046310
MRDS ID M241214
Record type Site
Current site name Rose Tungsten Mine
Alternate or previous names Shoestring, Smith
Related records 10282505

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.07626, 34.03368 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position IN ROCK CREEK CANYON, TRIBUTARY OF SPRING CREEK, 2 MI WNW OF JIM SAM BUTTE IN THE SIERRA ANCHA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gila(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buzzard Roost Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Payson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Holbrook(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tonto(hydrologic unit)

Salt(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 008N 012E 13 CENTER Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Vein Walls Altered To Sericite. Diorite Porphyry Is Considerably Silicified.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Apache Series
    Rock description Apache Series
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.07626, 34.03368
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Beds Strike Ne And Dip 45nw, Ne Trending Diorite Porphyry Intrusion Has Undergone Silicification And Is Up To 300 Ft Wide. Underlying Beds Are Schistose And In Places Chloritized And Impregnated With Specularite.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N45W
    Dip 80-85SW
    Depth to top 50.29M

Comments on the geologic information

  • NO DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAP, BUT MAPPING TO N SHOWS NE STRIKING PRECAMBRIAN SEDIMENTS AND INTRUSIVE ROCKS (GASTIL, 1958). THE SILICIFIED DIORITE PORPHYRY INTRUDES ORE-CONTAINING VEINS, WHICH IN TURN CUT ROCKS OF THE APACHE SERIES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1937
Discoverer R O'Quinn
Year of first production 1937
Year of last production 1958

Mining district

District name Spring Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Haught, C. A.
    First year 1980

Comments on the production information

  • A FEW TONS OF CONCENTRATE WERE PRODUCED IN THE LATE 1930'S AND IN THE LATE 1950'S.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 50.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • 1 LOWER ADIT MORE THAN 40 FT LONG, 2 UPER ADITS OF SAME LENGTH 50 FT HIGHER, 1 30 FT ADIT FURTHER EAST. MINED BY COYOTING.

Comments on development

  • PREVIOUS OPERATORS INCLUDED O'QUINN AND J. BINKLEY. FIVE UNPATENTED CLAIMS. PLANNED TO SINK NEW 100 FT SHAFT IN 1941

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM FILE DATA, CLUSTER NUMBER 1024.

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E.D., 1941, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 148, P. 27.

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, AND MOHAVE COUNTIES, ARIZONA: USBM IC 8078, P. 18.

  • Deposit

    GEOL SOC AM BULL, V. 69, P. 1495-1514 AND PLATES

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S.: USGS MAP MR-25.

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E.D., 1941, ARIZ. UNIV. BULL., V. 12, NO. 2.

  • Deposit

    SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    DALE, 1961

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000763 OF J.E. ELLIOTT WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit 2 PARALLEL QUARTZ VEINS, 17 FT APART , AVERAGE WIDTH 8 IN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 Gest, Don E. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-MAR-1994 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

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