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Friend Mine

Past Producer in Graham county in Arizona, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  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 10027121
MRDS ID M002158
Record type Site
Current site name Friend Mine
Alternate or previous names Copper Range Group
Related records 10234886

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.38957, 33.03649 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Relative position ON THE NORTH SIDE OF STANLEY BUTTE, 1.5 MILES WEST OF STANLEY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Graham(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rawhide Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Globe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Graham

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S 019E 34 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INDIAN CEDED LANDS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Cuprite Ore
Hematite Ore
Malachite Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE CONTAINS UP TO 20 - 30 % CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.38957, 33.03649
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Intersection Of Two Veins: N 20 W And N 20 E.

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR, IRREGULAR
    Strike NS
    Dip 90
    Width 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Visible Portions Of The Veins Are In Andesite.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1982
Year of first production 1917
Year of last production 1917

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • REPORTED TO BE ABOUT 2000 FT OF UNDERGROUND WORKINGS, MAIN TUNNEL IS ABOUT 1400 FT LONG AND ABOVE IT ARE SOME SHORT TUNNELS AND SHAFTS.

Comments on development

  • THE PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENT ON THE COPPER RANGE GROUP OF CLAIMS. MOST OF THE DEVELOPMENT WORK WAS DONE FROM 1870 TO 1907. ONLY ONE CARLOAD OF ORE (18 TONS) HAD BEEN SHIPPED OUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 763, P. 110.

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: EARLY EIGHTIES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1982 Laraba, Peter (Gest, Don E.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 18-APR-1995 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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