Olea Prospect

Past Producer in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper
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. Alteration
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027612
MRDS ID M003521
Record type Site
Current site name Olea Prospect
Related records 10113164

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.53689, 34.52226 (WGS84)
Elevation 677
Relative position 5 1/4 MILES NE OF SIGNAL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Greenwood Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bagdad(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Burro(hydrologic unit)

Bill Williams(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(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 Mohave

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 014N 012W 29 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Wall Rocks Are Strongly Serecitized

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.53689, 34.52226

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 20 W
    Dip 50 NE
    Width 0.76M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Greenwood District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL TONS OF LODE AND PLACER TUNGSTEN ORE DURING WORLD WAR I.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUT 5 TO 20 FEET DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E.D., 1941 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 148 , P. 19

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1977 Johnson, K. H. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1979 Creasey, S. C. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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