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Kelvin-Sultana Mine

Producer in Pinal 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048312
MRDS ID M899878
Record type Site
Current site name Kelvin-Sultana Mine
Alternate or previous names Sultana Arizona, Ray Boston Mine, Riverside Group
Related records 10137489

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.9618, 33.09842 (WGS84)
Elevation 610
Relative position ABOUT 0.8 MILES SOUTH EAST OF POINT WHERE MINERAL CREEK ENTERS GILA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kearny(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Globe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S;004S 014E;013E 7;12 W2 OF W2 OF E2 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED AT THE HORSESHOE BEND IN THE GILA RIVER AT RIVERSIDE UTM IS AT CENTER OF LARGE GROUP OF ADITS, SHAFTS, AND PROSPECTS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Lead Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Malachite Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Kaolin Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Ruin Granite;Teapot Mountain Porphyry
    Rock description Ruin Granite;Teapot Mountain Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.9618, 33.09842
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ew To Ene Trending Veins And Teapot Mountain Porphyry Dikes
Type of structure Local
Structure description Mine Directly East Of Riverside Breccia Pipe, Some Prospects In Breccia Pipe

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W
    Dip 40 TO 70 S
    Thickness 2.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Steeply Dipping Fissure Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1903
Discoverer Jas. K. Mccarthy And C. Kinney
Year of first production 1903
Year of last production 1918

Mining district

District name Riverside District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Morris And Lucy Q Wilkins
    First year 1968

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 3048M
    Overall depth 161.54M
    Overall length 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS INCLUDE DIAMOND JOE SHAFT (175 FT), WESTFALL (530 FT), NO. 2 SHAFT (180 FT), NO. 3 SHAFT (57 FT), NO. 4 SHAFT (100 FT), ALL OF WHICH ARE CONNECTED BY A DRIFT RUNNING N-S; OTHER WORKINGS ARE NO. 1 SHAFT (100 FT), TWIN SHAFT (20 FT). MOST OF THE DEVELOPMENT IS ON THE WM. J. BRYAN, AND WM. J. BRYAN NO. 2 AND NO. 3 CLAIMS AND DIAMOND JOE CLAIM

Comments on development

  • PREVIOUS OWNERS OR OPERATORS INCLUDE SULTANA-ARIZONA COPPER CO. (1908), KELVIN SULTANA COPPER CO.(1916), J. ERMAN (1906), RAY BOSTON COPPER CO. (1919); CLAIMS INCLUDE THE DIAMOND JOE, WM. J. BRYAN NO2-5, ST. KARL, ST. KARL NO 2-3, CONTACT, LITTLE CLARA, JOHN B. MECHAM, SILVER TWIG AND POSSIBLY OTHERS; MAY INCLUDE OLD RAY ARIZONA COPPER PROPERTY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT MIN RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, RAY FOLIO 1923 P23

  • Deposit

    USGS GEOLOGICAL QUADRANGLE MAP, GQ 1188, 1975

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NUMEROUS SMALL E-W STRIKING VEINS FOLLOWING FAULT FISSURES IN THE DIABASE INTRUSION AND GRANITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1982 Roth, Frances A. (Gest, Don E.) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

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