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Relief Mine

Past Producer in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027166
MRDS ID M002337
Record type Site
Current site name Relief Mine
Alternate or previous names Sunrise Relief Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.25462, 33.71174 (WGS84)
Relative position N OF PEORIA, W OF THE NEW RIVER, N OF SUN CITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Calderwood Butte(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 004N 001E 03,04 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name New River District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PLACER GOLD RECOVERED FROM DISTRICT IN 1933

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.J., 1972, PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA, GEOLOGIC SURVEY BULL. 1355 P. 25

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit KNOWN AS A PLACER BEFORE 1917, BUT ONLY THE LODE-GOLD PRODUCTION RECORD AVAILABLE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1980 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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Authoritative Arizona resources

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