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Golden Anchor Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048064
MRDS ID M800034
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Anchor Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.28741, 34.02784 (WGS84)
Elevation 1000
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 8.4 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF BLACK CANYON CITY, ARIZONA, Mils Location In North West Quarter Of Section 20

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Columbia(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bradshaw Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Agua Fria(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower 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 Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 008N 001E 20 NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION NOT VERIFIED BY ADDITIONAL LOCATION DATA; UTM TO GROUP OF WORKINGS IN NW CORNER OF SEC. 20

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization Adjacent To Some Dikes

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite;Rhyolite Porphyry Dikes
    Rock description Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite;Rhyolite Porphyry Dikes
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.28741, 34.02784
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Foliation In Precambrian Xenoliths (Quartz-Mica Schist) Trends N 40-50 E
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Parallel Rhyolite Porphyry Dikes And Foliation In Precambrian Xenoliths

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOLOGY PROBABLY SAME AS EL PERO BONITO MINE IN HUMBUG DISTRICT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1948
Year of last production 1953

Mining district

District name Humbug District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT- USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    MILS LOCATION DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-81 Dewitt, Ed H. 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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Authoritative Arizona resources

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