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Tarr Property

Past Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper, Gold, 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. 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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088602
MRDS ID M050190
Record type Site
Current site name Tarr Property
Related records 10210803

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.71318, 32.72704 (WGS84)
Elevation 1012
Relative position IN TARR WASH, 2 MILES NW OF THE TOWN OF TIGER, 11 MILES NW OF MAMMOTH.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mammoth(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mammoth(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Pedro(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 008S 016E 21 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Rock unit name Cloudburst Formation;Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Cloudburst Formation;Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Rock unit name Cloudburst Formation, Cretaceous Or Tertiary, Latite Flows
    Rock description Cloudburst Formation, Cretaceous Or Tertiary, Latite Flows

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.71318, 32.72704
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Block Faulting Trending Nnw. ; Reg.Trends: Post Cretaceous Pre-Pliocene Thrusts And High Angle Normal And Reverse Faults. Cretaceous - Tertiary Intrusives And Consequent Faulting.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR STRINGERS
    Strike N 70 E
    Dip 80 SE
    Thickness 1.52M
    Width 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: CRETACEOUS OR TERTIARY LAVA FLOWS THRUST OVER PRECAMBRIAN QUARTZ MONZONITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Production years UP TO 1943

Mining district

District name Mammoth District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • 1 VERTICAL SHAFT SEV. HUNDRED FT. DEEP, NOW INACCESSIBLE AND CONSIDERABLE LATERAL WORKINGS. TWO SHALLOW PITS ON BRECCIATED ZONE PRODUCED A SMALL AMOUNT OF SCHEELITE AND WOLFRAMITE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CREASEY, S.C., 1965, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 471.

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E.D., 1941, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 148

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THEU.S., U.S.G.S. MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    PETERSON, N.P., ARIZ. UNIV. BULL., VOL. 9, NO. 2, P. 43

  • Deposit

    1965 GEOLMAP CREASEY, S.C., PROF. PAPER 47

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    DALE, V. B., 1959, U.S. BUREAU MINES REPT. OF INV. 5516

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000830 OF JAMES E. ELLIOTT WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit QUARTZ STRINGERS CARRY WOLFRAMITE AND SCHEELITE. FOUND IN BRECCIATED ZONES. VEINS RANGE UP TO 6 IN THICK. 7 QUARTZ VEINS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1972 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1981 Harner, Joy L. (Peterson, Jo) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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