Gold Circle Group

Occurrence in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold, Molybdenum
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10037121
MRDS ID M030490
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Circle Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.85902, 32.82788 (WGS84)
Relative position 1.5 MI S OF ANTELOPE PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Putnam Wash(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mammoth(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Pedro(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 007S 014E 13 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Molybdenum Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
    Rock unit name Ruin Granite
    Rock description Ruin Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.85902, 32.82788

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Circle District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner C. Upshaw

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    DALE, 1959, USBM RI 5516

  • Deposit

    WILSON, 1941, ABM BULL 148, P. 35

  • Deposit

    KRIEGER, 1974, USGS MAP GQ-1109

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S.: USGS MAP MR-25.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 NARROW QUARTZ VEINS CARRY W AND AU VALUES.
Deposit THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M030490 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS. THIS RECORD ALSO CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000828 OF JAMES E. ELLIOT WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; 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.

Authoritative Arizona resources

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