Burro Barite Nos. 6 and 8

Occurrence in La Paz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Copper, Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite
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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10060302
MRDS ID TC10322
Record type Site
Current site name Burro Barite Nos. 6 and 8
Related records 10234558

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.05717, 33.93088 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Paz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bouse(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blythe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salton Sea(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bouse Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(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 La Paz

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 007N 017W 20 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.05717, 33.93088

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Plomosa Mining District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 5651, 70 P.

  • Deposit

    PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERAL CARD FILES.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-92 Wells, Tina M. (Orris, Greta J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-92 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.