Lucky Strike Claim

Occurrence in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodities Uranium, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Molybdenum
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027056
MRDS ID M001826
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Strike Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.51768, 33.94284 (WGS84)
Elevation 792
Relative position ABOUT 13 MI N OF MORRISTOWN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(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)

Agua Fria(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 007N 003W 13 NW/4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1964

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO RECOGNIZABLE URANIUM MINERALS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Galena Ore
Willemite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE FROM DUMP CONTAINED 0.025% EU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Yavapai Schist
    Rock description Yavapai Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.51768, 33.94284

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE MAY HAVE FORMED PODS OR POCKETS IN THE SCHIST.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Picacho District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. Richie And J. Russell
    First year 1951

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • 1 60 FT TUNNEL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GRANGER & RAUP, 1962, RECONNAISSANCE STUDY OF URANIUM DEPOSITS IN ARIZONA

  • Deposit

    ABM FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    GRANGER, 1950'S, USAEC PRELIM RECON REPT PRR-386 1?

  • Deposit

    JAHNS, 1952, ABM BULL 162.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M001826 WITH RE CORD M800241 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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