Rieder and Bailey Prospects

Occurrence in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Copper
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026866
MRDS ID M000649
Record type Site
Current site name Rieder and Bailey Prospects
Related records 10259485

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.71986, 33.0137 (WGS84)
Relative position 3 MILES NE OF WINKELMAN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Christmas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Globe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle 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 Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 005S 016E 09 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1965)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Limonite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chloritization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.71986, 33.0137

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Saddle Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mr. Rieder

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 TUNNELS SIDE BY SIDE, ONE CAVED.

Comments on development

  • SEVERAL UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, CLYDE P., 1925, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SADDLE MOUNTAIN AND BANNER MINING DISTRICTS, ARIZONA, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL 771.

  • Deposit

    U.S.B.M. CARD FILE.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POORLY DEFINED SHEAR ZONES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1981 Harner, Joy L. (Peterson, Jo) 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.