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Charles Mine

Producer in Gila county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046312
MRDS ID M241217
Record type Site
Current site name Charles Mine
Alternate or previous names Savage, Segal Property, Charles Baufman Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.75291, 33.30009 (WGS84)
Elevation 1356
Relative position 4 MILES NORTH EAST OF PINAL PEAK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gila(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pinal Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Globe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Carlos(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tonto National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Gila

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 001S 016E 31 NE OF SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF PIONEER PASS CAMPGROUND ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Pinal Schist
    Rock description Pinal Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.75291, 33.30009
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Veins In Granite Near Schist Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • NO DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAP OF AREA, BUT ADJOINING USGS MAP (BULL 1141-H) SHOWS LARGE AREAS OF MADERA DIORITE AND A SERIES OF NE TRENDING SCHULTZE GRANITE DIKES. THE MADERA DIORITE AND DIKES ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE DISTRICT AND HAVE BEEN VERIFIED IN THE FIELD BY SB KEITH IN THE MINE AREA

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1931
Year of last production 1942

Mining district

District name Pinal Mountains District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 121.92M

Comments on the workings information

  • 140 FT INCLINED SHAFT WITH 115 FT OF DRIFTING AT 80FT, 65 FT DRIFTING AT 100 FT, 20 FT DRIFTING AT 125 FT

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED; CHARLES MINING COMPANY, CHARLES B BAUFMAN, RIVERA AND SMITH. STOPPED PRODUCTION WHEN BAUFMAN ENTERED ARMED SERVICES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ADMR CHARLES BAUFMAN AND HARVEY FILES

  • Deposit

    USGS BULLETIN 1141-H, 1965, PLATE 1

  • Deposit

    KEITH, STANLEY B., 1982, EXXON MINERALS, TUCSON, ARIZONA.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 Steinzig, Kathryn L. (Gest, Don E.) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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