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Valcarce Claim

Occurrence in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodity Thorium
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048198
MRDS ID M800271
Record type Site
Current site name Valcarce Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.94406, 33.88813 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

New River Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Theodore Roosevelt Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Salt(hydrologic unit)

Salt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 006N 004E 04 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR CAVE CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1964

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Thorium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Thorite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Thorite Said To Be Altered, Nature Of Alteration Unspecified

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.94406, 33.88813
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 4.57M
    Width 7.62M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cave Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Valcarce, A. C.
    First year 1954

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USAEC RME-157, 1970

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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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