| Deposit ID | 10046361 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M241498 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Packard Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Bluebird Fluorspar, Packard Claims, Bluebird Mine, Tonto Basin, Walnut |
| Related records | 10112775 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -111.22849, 33.8734 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1036 |
| Relative position | 3.8 MILES WSW OF BONYBACK PEAK SUMMIT. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Gila(county)
Arizona(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Greenback Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Theodore Roosevelt Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Tonto(hydrologic unit)
Salt(hydrologic accounting unit)
Salt(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Arizona | Gila |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gila and Salt River | 006N | 011E | 09 | NW OF SE | Arizona |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Fluorine-Fluorite Critical | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Fluorite | Ore |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite | ||||||||
| Rock unit name | Rian Granite | ||||||||
| Rock description | Rian Granite | ||||||||
| |||||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite |
| Rock unit name | Apache Group |
| Rock description | Apache Group |
| (1) | -111.22849, 33.8734 |
|---|
| General form | CRYSTALLINE TO MASSIVE |
|---|---|
| Strike | EAST-TO-WEST |
| Dip | 70-90S |
| Thickness | 2.13M |
| Length | 804.65M |
| Width | 0.91M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Non-metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1938 |
| Production years | 1958 |
| District name | Tonto Basin Mining District |
|---|
| Ownership category | National Forest |
|---|---|
| Area name | Tonto National Forest |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Magma Copper Co. |
| First year | 1988 |
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Overall length | 120.4M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M241498 | |
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0040070004 |
USBM FILE DATA-CLUSTER #981-BLUEBIRD FLUORSPAR.
ELEVATORSKI, E.A., 1971, ARIZONA FLUORSPAR, ADMR, PP. 15-16.
CONWAY, C.M. 1976. PETROLOGY, STRUCTURE, AND EXOLUTION OF A PRECAMBRIAN VOLLANIC AND PLUTONIC COMPLEX, TONTO BASIN, GILA COUNTY ARIZONA, PHD THESIS.
"MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM: ARIZONA FLUORSPAR", ARIZONA DMR, MARCH 1976, USBM R.I. 3880.
VAN ALSTINE, R.E., 1969, "FLUORSPAR", IN ABM BULLETIN 180, USGS BULLETIN 871, P. 351.
PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERAL CARD FILES.
SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.
PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.
CIMRI
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | BOTH VEINS ARE IN FAULTED PREC GRANITE. MEDIUM-GRAINED, WHITE TO PURPLE FLUORITE AND QUARTZ IN LENSES IN AN EAST TRENDING, STEEPLY DIPPING, HALF MILE LONG FLUORITE VEIN THAT IS UP TO 7 FT THICK. LENSES AVEAGE 2.8 FT THICK AND CONTAIN ABOUT 72% CAF2 AND 20% SIO2. |
| Deposit | THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD TC10277 WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT |
| Deposit | 4 UNPATENTED CLAIMS. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-MAY-1982 | Steinzig, Kathryn L. (Gest, Don E.) | Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology | |
| Updater | 01-APR-1993 | Carbonaro, Marguerite M. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-NOV-1993 | Orris, Greta J. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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