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Flying Saucer Group

Occurrence in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodities 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027294
MRDS ID M002742
Record type Site
Current site name Flying Saucer Group
Alternate or previous names La Mina
Related records 10234462

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.83881, 33.87839 (WGS84)
Elevation 792
Relative position 11 MI SW OF WICKENBURG.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Vulture Peak(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 006W 12 NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :01; 40 1964

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROPERTY EXAMINED FOR BE BUT NONE DETECTED.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ferrimolybdite Ore
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 0.01-0.22% WO3 ASSAYS ON 8 SAMPLES.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Cretaceous
    Chronological age 68.4
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Cretaceous
    Chronological age 68.4

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.83881, 33.87839
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 121.92M
    Width 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Disseminations In Granitic And Dike Rock In Roughly Rounded Forms 0 .1-1.0 Cm

Comments on the geologic information

  • AREAS OF BRILLIANT FLUORESCENCE ARE NOT CRITERIA OF WO3 CONTENT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Vulture District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W. C. Kinnon
    First year 1959

Comments on the workings information

  • DISCOVERY SHAFT AND SOME TRENCHING

Comments on development

  • 6 PATENTED LODE CLAIMS. PREVIOUS OWNER J. FRANK HENDERSON (1950)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DALE, 1959, USBM RI 5516, P. 37.

  • Deposit

    REEVES, 1966, USBM RI 6828, P. 58.

  • Deposit

    ABM FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    WILSON, 1941, ABM BULL 148, P. 54.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M002742 WITH RE CORD M800238 OF JAN WILT IN MOLBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G THEORDO RE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 22-MAY-1995 Orris, Greta J. 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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