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Tough Nut Group

Past Producer in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodity Tungsten
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  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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027071
MRDS ID M001909
Record type Site
Current site name Tough Nut Group
Related records 10137622

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.71519, 33.86228 (WGS84)
Elevation 701
Relative position ABOUT 7 MILES WNW OF MORRISTOWN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wickenburg SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Phoenix North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hassayampa(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 006N 004W 18 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • UTM'S TO CENTER OF SECT. 18 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result HAND PICKED ORE CONTAINED 8% N03

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.71519, 33.86228
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form GRAINS & STRINGERS
    Strike N80W
    Dip 745W
    Length 4.57M
    Width 0.25M

Comments on the geologic information

  • SCHEELITE OCCURS IN AND ALONG BEDDING PLANES. TWO PARALLEL FRACTURES 50 FEET APART HAVE BEEN WORKED. NO RELATIONSHIP IS EVIDENT BETWEEN DIKES AND INER*. NO RELATIONSHIP IS EVIDENT BETWEEN DIKES AND MINERALIZATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1954
Discoverer E G Savage & C J Berry

Mining district

District name Vulture District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 5.49M
    Overall length 4.57M

Comments on development

  • 3 UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., 1959, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF YUMA, MARICOPA, PINAL, AND GRAHAM COUNTIES, ARIZ, U.S.B.M. RI 5516 P. 35-36

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 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.

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