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Copper Hill Prospect

Occurrence in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Molybdenum
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037118
MRDS ID M030480
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Hill Prospect
Related records 10210883

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.86375, 32.94871 (WGS84)
Elevation 1024
Relative position BETWEEN N BRANCH OF ROMERO WASH & S BRANCH OF SMITH WASH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Winkelman(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mammoth(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 005S 014E 36 SE4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Molybdenum Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Quartz-Sericite-Pyrite In Granodiorite, Chlorite-Epidote-Montmoril Lonite In Granite, Weak Potassic Alteration In Granodiorite

Analytical data

Result TRACE OF MOLYBDENITE IN DRILL CORE
Result MOLY ANOMALY

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Ruin (Oracle) Granite
    Rock description Ruin (Oracle) Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.86375, 32.94871
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE QUARTZ-SERICITE ALTERATION HAS 5-25 PPM MO ANOMALY. THE INTRUS ION HAS A 100 PPM CU ANOMALY. PB, ZN, & MN ANOMALIES OCCUR NW OF CU & MO ANOMALIES. NOU PRODUCING PROSPECT IN AREA OF PROVEN COPPER POTENTI AL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cottonwood District

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on the workings information

  • DRILL HOLES, CONOCO, 1971

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVENSEN, 1961, MS THESIS, UNIV OF AZ, 45 P.

  • Deposit

    KRIEGER, 1974, USGS MAP GQ-1106

  • Deposit

    SCHMIDT, 1971, PH.D. THESIS, UNIV OF AZ, 248 P.

  • Deposit

    SCHWARTZ, 1954, MS THESIS, UNIV OF AZ, 82 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M030480 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-APR-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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