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Black Bess Mine Group

Past Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Tungsten, Molybdenum
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  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 10027151
MRDS ID M002286
Record type Site
Current site name Black Bess Mine Group
Alternate or previous names Submarine Group, Mary A, Wareagle
Related records 10283537

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.64406, 32.13428 (WGS84)
Elevation 677
Relative position 7 MI W OF GUNSIGHT NEAR BALBOA BAR; 21 MI SE OF AJO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gunsight(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ajo(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ajo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Cristobal Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 015S 004W 01,02 SW4 (10); SE4 (02) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • PAPAGO INDIAN RESERVATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) High Gold In Oxidized Zone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.64406, 32.13428
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fissure Zone

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Stringers Along Fissure Zone In Granitic Rock Near The Contact W Th Basaltic Andesite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • SPORADIC PRODUCTION

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT WORKINGS

Comments on development

  • ORIGINALLY PROSPECTED IN LATE 1880'S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, 1974, ABM BULL 189

  • Deposit

    MINES HANDBOOK, 1920

  • Deposit

    ABM FILE DATA

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    KEITH, 1974

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M002286 WITH RE CORD D000787 OF JAN WILT AND ELLIOT, JAMES E. 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-MAR-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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