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Marcotte Group

Past Producer in Graham county in Arizona, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Copper, Silver, Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039660
MRDS ID M050606
Record type Site
Current site name Marcotte Group
Alternate or previous names Kinney Kye, Marcotte Claims
Related records 10160842

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.15956, 32.74288 (WGS84)
Elevation 1372
Relative position 12 MILES SE OF KLONDYKE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Graham(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eureka Ranch(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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Graham

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 008S 021E 13,14 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GREEN FLUORSPAR.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Fluorspar Ore
Calcite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 71.1% BASO4
Result 6.4% CAF2
Result 1.3% CACO3
Result 0.80 OZ AG
Result 0.08 OZ AU PER TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.15956, 32.74288
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Two Nw Trending Post-Mineral Faults That Offset Vein

Ore body information

  • Strike N 55 W
    Dip 90 NE
    Width 2.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1904

Mining district

District name Clark District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION IN 1904 FROM A SHAFT >300 FT DEEP.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 128.02M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT, ONCE KNOWN AS THE KINNEY KYE MINE SOME 50 YEARS AGO (1960), IS 420 FT DEEP, WITH TWO DRIFTS AT UNKNOWN DEPTHS. THERE IS BARITE 4 TO 6 FT WIDE ALL THE WAY DOWN THE SHAFT. THERE ARE TWO PITS 200 FT NW FROM THE SHAFT, BOTH ABOUT 10 FT DEEP.

Comments on development

  • ORIGINALLY LOCATED ABOUT 1900, J.D. MATTHEWS RELOCATED THE GROUP IN 1934. THEN AJMA COTTE RELOCATED IT IN 1956. THE GROUP CONSISTS OF 12 CONTIGUOUS UNPATENTED CLAIMS. (MARCOTTE NOS 1 THROUGH 12)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ELEVATORSKI, E.A., 1971, ARIZONA FLUORSPAR, ARIZONA DMR, USBM RI 5651, P. 19-24.

  • Deposit

    VAN ALSTINE, R.E., AND MOORE, R.T., 1969, FLUORSPAR, IN ABM BULL. 180, USGS BULL. 871, P. 352.

  • Deposit

    PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERAL CARD FILES.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL BARITE-BEARING VEINS OCCUR IN PARALLEL FAULT FRACTURES TRAVERSING A VOLCANIC AGGLOMERATE FORMATION. STRIKE OF THE VEINS IS APPROX N45-65W, AND ARE EITHER VERTICAL OR STEEPLY DIPPING TO THE NE.
Deposit 12 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1973 Johnson, Maureen G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Laraba, Peter (Gest, Don E.) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-SEP-1991 Carbonaro, Marguerite M. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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