American Eagle Mine

Past Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Lead, 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039464
MRDS ID M050121
Record type Site
Current site name American Eagle Mine
Alternate or previous names American Eagle Basin

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.49624, 32.74954 (WGS84)
Elevation 1113
Relative position 14 MI NE OF SAN MANUEL, 0.5 MI SE OF CHILDS-ALDWINKLE MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rhodes Peak(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)

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 Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 008S 018E 11 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • ON W SLOPE OF NORTH CENTRAL GALIURO MTS ON THE COPPER CREEK - SOMB RERO BUTTE ROAD, SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET SW OF COPPER CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1964

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 3% BY WEIGHT TOTAL SULFIDES; IN SOME AREAS OF MINE NEAR 200 LEVEL RICHEST ORE AVERAGES 14% CU

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericite With Breccia Pipes & Dacite Porphyry; Potassic And Argill Ic, Lesser Propylitization, Silicification, And Tourmalinization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Rock unit name Copper Creek Granodiorite
    Rock description Copper Creek Granodiorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.49624, 32.74954

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Block Faulting Trending Nnw
Type of structure Local
Structure description Strong Zone Of Faulting Striking E-W And Cut By Cross Faults Strik Ing N60e & N20e

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N60E
    Dip 70N
    Thickness 15.24M
    Length 762M
    Width 457.2M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures, Blowout Or Chimney

Comments on the geologic information

  • AT THE BLOWOUT A REPLACEMENT VEIN 6-18 FT WIDE LIES AGAINST FRESH DIORITE, THUS AN ATYPICAL CHIMNEY DEPOSIT. FURTHER, THE CHIMNEY IS MAI NLY CRACKED SERICITIZED DIORITE WITH ORE AT JOINT INTERSECTIONS RATHER THAN A BRECCIA.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bunker Hill District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the production information

  • SIZE OF THE UNDERGROUND WORKINGS STILL OPEN INDICATES THAT AN APPR ECIABLE AMOUNT OF ORE WAS EXTRACTED

Comments on the workings information

  • STOPES CAVED, ADIT FLOODED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SIMONS, 1964, USGS PP 461

  • Deposit

    WEED, 1913, MIN & ENG WORLD, V. 38, P. 375-378

  • Deposit

    GUTHRIE & MOORE, 1978, AZ GEOL SOC DIGEST, V. 11, P. 25

  • Deposit

    KUHN, 1941, ECON. GEOL. V. 36, NO. 5, P. 522

  • Production

    SIMONS, 1954

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WHERE VEIN IS 50 FT WIDE (300 LEVEL) ONLY 6 FT IS ORE GRADE. ROCK IS NOT LEACHED. WHERE VEIN IS 30-49 FT WIDE (200 LEVEL) 18 FT IS ORE GRADE NEAR TOP, 6-18 FT WIDE VEIN IS ALL ORE
Deposit THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M050121 WITH RE CORD M030467 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

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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