Oro Belle Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, 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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026932
MRDS ID M001127
Record type Site
Current site name Oro Belle Mine
Alternate or previous names Orobelle-Gray Eagle
Related records 10137843

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.34574, 34.17062 (WGS84)
Elevation 1658
Relative position 2 1/2 MILES S OF CROWN KING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crown King(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bradshaw Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Agua Fria(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Prescott 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 Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 010N 001W 34 NE OF NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TWNSHIP, RNGE, SEC.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) None

Analytical data

Result 1 OZ. AU, 2 OZ. AG/TON, 1 % CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite (1.5 Miles E Of Mine);Rhyolite Dikes
    Rock description Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite (1.5 Miles E Of Mine);Rhyolite Dikes
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Proterozoic
    Chronological age 1720
    Dating method U-Pb (zircon)
    Type of media Zircon
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.34574, 34.17062

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Foliation Trends N25e
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Parallel Regional Foliation

Ore body information

  • Width 4.57M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS VEIN WHICH CUTS PRECAMBRIAN QUARTZITE AND SCHIST. IGNEOUS ROCKS OF CRET-PALEO AGE ARE CLOSE TO DEPOSIT AND OCCUR TO SOUTH AT CROWN KING, ARIZONA

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tiger District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M
    Overall depth 182.88M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1981 Laraba, Peter (Dewitt, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.