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Century Mine

Occurrence in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Molybdenum, 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. 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 10037081
MRDS ID M030356
Record type Site
Current site name Century Mine
Related records 10258840

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.82635, 35.13002 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585
Relative position 1.5 MI NW OF STANDARD MINERALS MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hualapai Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Valentine(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Williams(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Red Lake(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(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 020N 015W 12,11 W2 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Molybdenum Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Cretaceous
    Chronological age 65.2
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.82635, 35.13002
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 0.61M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Maynard District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner United Republic Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • 100 TON/DAY MILL AT ONE TIME. 1000 FT DEVELOPMENT WORK WAS DONE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AZ BUREAU GEOL & MIN TECH FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    MALACH, 1977, MOHAVE CO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, KINGMAN

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M030356 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENU M FILE; CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

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