Gold Metal Mine

Occurrence in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095374
MRDS ID M030357
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Metal Mine
Related records 10137467

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.82718, 35.10363 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dean Peak(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)

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 Mohave

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 020N 015W 24 NW/4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • E SIDE OF HUALAPAI MOUNTAINS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Molybdenum Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Cretaceous
    Chronological age 65.2
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.82718, 35.10363

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description In Soap Wash Fault (?) Zone; Mineralized Ne Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Maynard District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on development

  • DRILLHOLES; 6 UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VUICH, 1974, M.S. THESIS, UNIV OF AZ

  • Deposit

    MALACH, 1977, MOHAVE CO. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, KINGMAN

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M030357 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENU M FILE; CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. 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.