| 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: | -112.55824, 33.96196 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1097 |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Arizona | Yavapai |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gila and Salt River | 007 N | 003 W | 10 | Arizona |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Beryllium Critical | Tertiary |
| Feldspar | Tertiary |
| Lithium Critical | Tertiary |
| Mica | Tertiary |
| Niobium (Columbium) Critical | Primary |
| Tantalum Critical | Primary |
| Tungsten Critical | Tertiary |
| 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 |
| (1) | -112.55824, 33.96196 |
|---|
| Length | 73M | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Width | 43M | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Operation type | Surface-Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Both |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1939 |
| Year of first production | 1942 |
| District name | White Picacho |
|---|
| Type | Owner-Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Rupert Spivey |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0040251836 |
DALE, V.B. TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, AND MOHAVE
COUNTIES, ARIZONA. BUMINES IC 8078, 1961, 104 PP.
JAHNS, R.H. PEGMATITE DEPOSITS OF THE WHITE PICACHO
DISTRICT, MARICOPA AND YAVAPAI COUNTIES, ARIZONA. AZ
BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 162, 1952, 105 PP.
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. MINERAL RESOURCES DATA SYSTEM
(MRDS, COMPUTER DATA BASE). ALL RECORDS PERTAINING TO
ARIZONA; AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST FROM U.S. GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY, RESTON, VA.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THE STRIKE OF THE MINERALIZATION IS N55E; DIP IS 35 TO 55 S. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 23-SEP-1991 | Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) | U.S. Bureau of Mines |
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