| Deposit ID | 10026975 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M001446 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Line Boy Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Contains Some Last Chance and Montana Claims |
| Related records | 10259249 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -110.6915, 31.33542 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | JUST N OF INT'L BOUNDARY POST 113, S OF DUQUESNE. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Santa Cruz(county)
Arizona(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Duquesne(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Nogales(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Upper Santa Cruz(hydrologic unit)
Santa Cruz(hydrologic accounting unit)
Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)
Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Coronado National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Arizona | Santa Cruz |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gila and Salt River | 024S | 016E | 22 | SE | Arizona |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Gold | Secondary |
| Molybdenum | Tertiary |
| Iron | Tertiary |
| Lithium Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Bornite | Ore |
| Chalcocite | Ore |
| Chalcopyrite | Ore |
| Molybdenite | Ore |
| Pyrite | Ore |
| Specularite | Ore |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite |
| Host or associated | Host | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite | ||||
| |||||
| (1) | -110.6915, 31.33542 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Deposits In Region Associed With Granitic Intrusive Rocks-Aplite, Granite Porphyry, And Allied Acidic Rocks |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure description | Quartz Monzonite Is Intruded Locally By A Small Stock-Like Mass Of Granite Porphyry About 300 Ft Wide That Trends N |
| Width | 1.83M |
|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Querces District |
|---|
| Ownership category | National Forest |
|---|---|
| Area name | Coronado National Forest |
| Year | 1945 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1942-1945 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Accurate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Cp_Grade: ^4.7% Cu, 1.02 Oz/T Ag, 0.01 Oz/T Au | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 56.39M |
| Overall depth | 24.38M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M001446 | |
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0040230759 |
SCHRADER, 1915, USGS BULL 582.
ABM FILE DATA.
SCHRADER, 1917, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 12, P. 237-269.
SCHRADER AND HILL, 1910, USGS BULL 430.
SIMONS, 1974, US MAP I-762.
ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.
USBM FILES, LINE BOY MINE.
ADMR FILE DATA LINE BOY MINE.
ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, LINE BOY MINE.
GALBRAITH, F.W., AND BRENNAN, D.J., 1970, MINERALS OF ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 181, 116 P.
PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERALS CARD FILE.
CIMRI
ABM FILE DATA
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | 10 FT DIKE EXTENDS FROM GRANITE PORPHYRY MASS TO NW AND DIPS STEEPLY TO N; SHEET OF SPECULARITE 3 FT WIDE FOLLOWS HANGING WALL SIDE OF DIKE; CONSIDERABLE AMOUNTS OF WHITE MICA DEVELOPED IN QUARTZ MONZONITE NEAR CONTACT. |
| Deposit | THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M001446 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS. INCLUDES DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000343 OF ROBERT U. KING WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-MAY-1983 | Peterson, Jocelyn A. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-MAY-1982 | Calder, Susan R. | Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology |
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