Topaz Claims

Occurrence in La Paz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Tungsten, Copper, Molybdenum, Uranium
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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037077
MRDS ID M030338
Record type Site
Current site name Topaz Claims
Related records 10186733

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.30912, 33.6695 (WGS84)
Elevation 366
Relative position ABOUT 2 MI N OF US HWY 60-70 NEAR MARQUETTA PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Paz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Middle Camp Mountain(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 004N 020W 22 SE4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1964

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Molybdenum Secondary
Uranium Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Limonite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result .055 EU3O8, .2 EU3O8, .006 EU3O8, SELECT SAMPLES

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Middle Camp Quartz Monzonite;Diablo Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Middle Camp Quartz Monzonite;Diablo Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.30912, 33.6695

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 0.91M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Middle Camp District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Loftgrenn, A. E. And Filling, L. E.
    First year 1955

Comments on the workings information

  • A FEW PROSPECT PITS. TOPO SHEET SHOWS 3 SHAFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    WALLABY ENTERPRISES, TUCSON, AZ, MINING DISTRICT DATA BASE FILE

  • Deposit

    ASHWILL, 1955, USAEC PRELIM. RECONN. REPT A-P-308, 1 P.

  • Deposit

    CROWL, 1979, MS THESIS, UNIV OF AZ

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M030338 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENU M FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. 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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