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Night Hawk and White Dike Prospects

Past Producer in La Paz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold, Copper
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027788
MRDS ID M004099
Record type Site
Current site name Night Hawk and White Dike Prospects
Alternate or previous names Colorado Mine Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.08634, 33.55312 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Paz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crystal Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blythe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salton Sea(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tyson Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(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 La Paz

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 003N 018W 35,36 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 10 AIR MILES SE OF QUARTZSITE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.08634, 33.55312
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: ORE IN POCKETS IN PEGMATITE DIKES. SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Southern Plomosa District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the production information

  • WORKED ON SMALL SCALE 1942-44 WITH YIELD OF ABOUT 100 UNITS OF WO3 IN HIGH GRADE ORE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S.B.M. CARD FILE.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUB. DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON & TWETO, 1962, USGS MAP MR-25.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS.
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000836 OF J.E. ELLIOTT WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1992 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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