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Gold Camp Mines Area

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver, 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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046275
MRDS ID M241165
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Camp Mines Area
Alternate or previous names Golden Crown, No Account Gr.
Related records 10305201

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.88871, 31.6907 (WGS84)
Elevation 1494
Relative position APPROX. 13 MI. E. OF TOMBSTONE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hay Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chiricahua Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Whitewater Draw(hydrologic unit)

Rio De Bavispe(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 020S 024E 15,16 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Molybdenum Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Gleeson Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Gleeson Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.88871, 31.6907
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Veins

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1950
Year of last production 1941

Mining district

District name Turquoise District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • SPORADIC, SMALL ORE PRODUCTION IN EARLY 1900'S. GOLD CROWN PRODUCED 30 TONS IN 1931, NO ACCOUNT 144 TONS 1937-1938 AND 1940-1941.

Comments on the workings information

  • A FEW SHALLOW SHAFTS AND TUNNELS.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED S.E. WESTERN, G.Y. MCLLENDON, WM. B. CROW

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S.B., 1973, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 187, P. 82.

  • Deposit

    ABM FILE DATA

  • Production

    KEITH, 1973, ARIZ. BUR. OF MINES BULL. 187.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SPOTTY, OXIDIZED MINERALIZATION IN QUARTZ VEINS IN INTRUSIVE QUARTZ MONZONITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Zigler, Jan L. 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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