Homestake Group

Occurrence in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Tungsten, Silver
Sections on this page
  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. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027317
MRDS ID M002852
Record type Site
Current site name Homestake Group
Alternate or previous names Monike Mines Co ?

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.52852, 33.94228 (WGS84)
Elevation 914
Relative position ABOUT 1.7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RED PICACHO MOUNTAIN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Picacho(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 007N 003W 13;23 SW (13) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue

Analytical data

Result GREATER THAN 1.0 PERCENT WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.52852, 33.94228

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form THIN STRINGERS & GRAINS
    Strike N60E
    Dip 45NW
    Length 4.57M
    Width 0.1M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer H.C. Mohniks
Year of first production 1940
Year of last production 1949

Mining district

District name Red Picacho District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Carl Mclendon
    First year 1949
  • Type Owner
    Owner George Cook
    First year 1949

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.008HA
    Overall depth 1.83M
    Overall length 9.14M
    Overall width 9.14M

Comments on the workings information

  • A DIAMOND DRILL HOLE HAS BEEN SUNK TO DEPTH OF 500 FEET, AND SCHEELITE PERSISTED TO THE BOTTOMMAIN WORKINGS CONSIST OF AN OPEN CUT 30 BY 30 BY 3 FEET DEEP AND A 6 FOOT SHAFT

Comments on development

  • 4 CLAIMS; MAY OVERLAP DANIELS MINE PROPERTY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., 1959, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF YUMA, MARICOPA, PINAL, AND GRAHAM COUNTIES, ARIZONA, U.S.B.M.-R.I 5516, P.34-35.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

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.

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.