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Outpost Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Bismuth, Feldspar, Quartz, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Mica, Tin, Vanadium, Lead, Copper, Zinc
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027570
MRDS ID M003391
Record type Site
Current site name Outpost Mine
Related records 10184381

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.56074, 33.98367 (WGS84)
Elevation 1036
Relative position 10 MILES E OF WICKENBURG.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(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)

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 Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 007N 003W 03 NW4 OF NE4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bismuth Critical Primary
Feldspar Primary
Quartz Tertiary
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Tertiary
Tantalum Critical Tertiary
Mica Tertiary
Tin Critical Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Albite Ore
Anglesite Ore
Bismuth Ore
Bismuthinite Ore
Bismutite Ore
Cassiterite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Columbite Ore
Cuprite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Silver Ore
Tantalite Ore
Vanadinite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Apatite Gangue
Beryl Gangue
Fluorite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Microlite Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Pyrochlore Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Iron Oxide Staining

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.56074, 33.98367
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POD, CURVED, CONVEX
    Strike N E
    Dip E
    Plunge direction N - NE
    Length 91.44M
    Width 60.96M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bismuth Minerals Are Locally Abundant In Brecciated And Sheared Quartz Rich Pegmatite.

Comments on the geologic information

  • HOST ROCK IS HORNBLENDE GNEISS AND QUARTZ-HORNBLENDE-BIOTITE GNEISS AND SCHIST.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Picacho District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Fansteel Metallurgical Corp.
    Home office North Chicago, Il.
    First year 1986
  • Type Owner
    Owner Earl And Sidney Anderson
    First year 1958

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ESTIMATE IS TO A DEPTH OF 10 FEET. TOTAL RESERVES ARE MUCH LARGER.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 6.1M
    Overall length 27.43M
    Overall width 10.67M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS INCLUDE OPEN CUTS (MAIN CUT: 90 FT BY 35 FT BY 20 FT DEEP; BISMUTH CUT) AN INCLINE (20 FT) AND SEVERAL IRREGULAR TRENCHES, PITS, AND CUTS

Comments on development

  • WHITEHALL CORP. WAS OPERATOR IN 1962. DURING 1984-86, FANSTEEL CARRIED OUT SURFACE DRILLING PROGRAM AND MINED BULK SAMPLE FOR METALLURGICAL EVALUATION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JAHNS, R. H., 1952 , PEGMATITE DEPOSITS OF THE WHITE PICACHO DISTRICT MARICOPA AND YAVAPAI COUNTIES, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 162 .

  • Deposit

    PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERALS CARD FILE.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.

  • Deposit

    NIEMUTH, N.J., 1987, ARIZONA MINERAL DEVELOPMENT 1984-1986: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES DIRECTORY 29, 46 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE MAIN PEGMATITE COMPRISES FIVE WELL DEFINED ZONES. (1) A DISCONTINUOUS OUTER SELVAGE OF QUARTZ, ALBITE, MUSCOVITE, AND SCHORL, ALSO MICA. (2) THE WALL ZONE ( 2 TO 55 FEET THICK ) OF PERTHITE, QUARTZ, ALBITE, AND MUSCOVITE IS MOSTLY COARSE GRAINED. (3) THE OUTER INTERMEDIATE ZONE IS COARSE GRAINED BLOCKY PERTHITE. TOURMALINE IS LOCALLY ABUNDANT. (4) THE INNER INTERMEDIATE ZONE HAS VERY COARSE PERTHITE AND MASSES OF QUARTZ. (5) THE CORE IS ARBITRARILY DESIGNATED AS HIGHER GRADE FELDSPAR THAN THE PREVIOUS ZONE. BISMUTH MINERALS FORMS VEINLETS AND STOCK WORKS WITHIN THE QUARTZ-RICH PEGMATITE, ALSO AS SCATTERED IRREGULAR MASSES. THE BISMUTH MINERALS ARE THEMSELVES TRANSECTED BY VEINLETS CONTAINING WULFENITE, VANADINITE, PYROMORPHITE, MIMETITE, ANGLESITE, CERUSSITE, CHRYSOCOLLA, CUPRITE, AND FLUORITE. NATIVE SILVER AND MOLYBDENITE ARE DISSEMINATED THROUGH SOME MASSES OF BISMUTITE AND BEYERITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1992 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

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