White Pearl Prospect

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Tungsten, Zinc
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027881
MRDS ID M004330
Record type Site
Current site name White Pearl Prospect
Alternate or previous names Silver Dollar 1943
Related records 10280361

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.49769, 34.46477 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676
Relative position 3 3/4 MILES W OF GROOM CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Groom Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bradshaw Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(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

Prescott National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 013N 002W 32 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bismutite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Vanadinite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.49769, 34.46477

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POCKETS AND LENSES
    Strike N 10 E
    Dip 67 SE
    Length 152.4M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Scheelite Seems To Concentrate On The Hanging Wall Of The Vein

Comments on the geologic information

  • SCHEELITE GRAINS UP TO 1/2 INCH IN SIZE, IN SEAMS ABOUT 1/16 INCH WIDE, SPORADICALLY DISSEMINATED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hassayampa District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE OPENCUTS WITH AT LEAST 10-FOOT FACES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., 1961 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, MOHAVE COUNTIES, ARIZONA: U.S.B.M. INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8078 , P. 21

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1984 Johnson, Kris H. (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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