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Big Horn Mountains Placers

Past Producer in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodity Gold
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Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048183
MRDS ID M800247
Record type Site
Current site name Big Horn Mountains Placers
Alternate or previous names Big Horn, Sweeney, Tiger, Borian, Davenport

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.23937, 33.76173 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 10 MILES SOUTH OF AGUILA., Located At Tiger Well On Aguila Quadrangle

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tiger Well(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salome(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Centennial Wash(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 Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 003N;004N;005N 008W;009W Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION OF THE PLACERS IS UNCERTAIN, MOST ARE THOUGHT TO BE IN T5N, R9W. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.23937, 33.76173
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOLD PROBABLY CAME FROM GOLD-BEARING VEINS IN BIG HORN MOUNTAINS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1933-1942

Mining district

District name Big Horn District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the production information

  • PLACERS WERE WORKED FROM 1933-1942

Comments on the workings information

  • MOST PRODUCTION CAME FROM INDIVIDUALS WORKING SEVERAL PLACER CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, USGS BULL 1355, 1972, P. 20.

  • Deposit

    WILSON, ABGMT BULL 168, 1961, P. 61.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    AZ.BU.MINES BULL, 168

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF THESE DEPOSITS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-81 Peterson, Jocelyn A. 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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