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XIV Group

Producer in Greenlee county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver
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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. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048272
MRDS ID M800395
Record type Site
Current site name XIV Group
Alternate or previous names Stevens Lease

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.36759, 33.12343 (WGS84)
Elevation 1426
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 1.0 MILE NORTH OF METCALF ON WEST SIDE OF HIGHWAY 666, Used Blm District Sheet 837 And Usgs Professional Paper 43 (1905), Used Blm District Sheet 837 And Usgs Professional Paper 43 (1905), Used Blm District Sheet 837 And Usgs Professional Paper 43 (1905)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Francisco(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Greenlee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 003S;004S 029E 33,32;04 W2 (33); E2 OF SE (32); N2 OF NW (04) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • EASTERNMOST ADIT IN SW QUARTER OF SECTION 33 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Cuprite Ore
Malachite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Pinal Schist;Precambrian Granite Basement;Morenci Granite Porphyry
    Rock description Pinal Schist;Precambrian Granite Basement;Morenci Granite Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 55.5
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.36759, 33.12343
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Normal Faulting Confined To Pre-Tertiary Rocks
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ore Occurs In Narrow Stringers Within Ore Zone In Monzonite Porphyry

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR AND IN NARROW STRINGERS
    Width 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Small Ne Trending Fissure Veins In Quartz Monzonite Porphyry

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1872
Discoverer Charles E. Stevens And Isaac Stevens; Leszynsky Brothers
Year of first production 1937
Year of last production 1951

Mining district

District name Copper Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Stevens Jr., Charles E.
    First year 1951
  • Type Owner
    Owner Phelps Dodge Corp., Morenci Branch

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 91.44M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDED ONE SHAFT OF 60 FT DEPTH, 2 TUNNELS OF 300 FT TOTAL LENGTH

Comments on development

  • CHARLES E. STEVENS JR. RECEIVED LEASE ON MOLINAR ALASKA MINE IN 1952 FROM PHELPS DODGE CORPORATION IN RETURN FOR GIVING THE XIV GROUP PROPERTY TO THE CORPORATION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA, UNDER STEVENS MINE

  • Deposit

    BLM DISTRICT SHEET 837

  • Deposit

    BENNETT, K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE ZONE HAS MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 100 FT AND CONTAINS 2 VEINS WITH DIMENSIONS 30 FT BY 400 FT; SEVERAL SMALLER VEINS WITH DIMENSIONS 4 IN. BY 24 IN.; 12 UNPATENTED CLAIMS (X.I.V. GROUP NO 1 THROUGH 12)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-81 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

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