Hatton Claims

Occurrence in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027068
MRDS ID M001897
Record type Site
Current site name Hatton Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.11659, 33.62923 (WGS84)
Elevation 610
Relative position 30 MILES SE OF AGUILA, 5 MILES W OF THE WOOD CHOPPER TANK (A NATURAL ROCK RESERVOIR.) IN BIG HORN MOUNTAINS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hummingbird Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salome(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Centennial Wash(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 003N 008W 07 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore

Analytical data

Result SURFACE SAMPLES ASSAYED 35 TO 40 PERCENT MANGANESE, 10 PERCENT FE, AND LESS THAN ONE PERCENT SILICA.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 156
USGS model code 25g
Deposit model name Epithermal Mn

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N20E
    Dip 75W
    Width 0.61M

Comments on the geologic information

  • FE & MN OXIDES ARE INTIMATELY MIXED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer J Hatton

Mining district

District name Big Horn District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Noble Electric Steel Co.
    First year 1918

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION RECORD

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • A FEW HUNDRED TONS (1918)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 4.27M
    Overall length 91.44M

Comments on development

  • 2 CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ARIZ. B.M. BULL. 127, P.70, BULL. 710, P.135

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-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.