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Black Rock Deposit

Occurrence in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094261
MRDS ID D003278
Record type Site
Current site name Black Rock Deposit
Related records 10259600

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.54328, 35.29252 (WGS84)
Elevation 1622
Relative position IN COTTONWOOD MTNS., 12 MILES SE OF HACKBERRY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Valentine SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Valentine(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Williams(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Sandy(hydrologic unit)

Bill Williams(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Mohave

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 022N 012W 16 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.54328, 35.29252
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR PODS, DISSEMINATED, SCATTERED
    Width 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shears That Follow Foliation Of Schist

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cottonwood District

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION RECORD

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 7.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 SHAFTS AND A FEW SHALLOW TRENCHES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., 1961 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, MOHAVE COUNTIES, ARIZONA: U.S.B.M. INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8078 , P. 95

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1977 Johnson, K. H. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1979 Creasey, S. C. 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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