C and W Prospect

Past Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodity Tungsten
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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  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 10102519
MRDS ID M003260
Record type Site
Current site name C and W Prospect
Related records 10162204

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.42518, 34.09284 (WGS84)
Elevation 1067
Relative position 7.5 MILES NW OF COLUMBIA. ABOUT 2 MI SW OF SILVER MTN. ON A SADDLE BETWEEN WALKER AND BANTY CREEKS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copperopolis(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bradshaw Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Agua Fria(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(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 Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 009N 002W 25 W2 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Yavapai Schist
    Rock description Yavapai Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.42518, 34.09284

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Schistosity Ne, 60 Nw

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Dip 80 SE
    Width 0.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1940
Discoverer W.L. Palmer, G.A. Westerdahl

Mining district

District name Tussock District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner G. A. Westerdahl
    First year 1961

Comments on the production information

  • FEW HUNDRED POUNDS OF CONCENTRATES, 1940 - 41 .

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 9.14M
    Overall length 7.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A CAVED OPEN CUT 15 FT HIGH & 25 FT LONG, A CAVED SHAFT 30 FT DEEP AND SEVERAL SHALLOW PROSPECT PITS

Comments on development

  • WORKED 1940-41 WITH SMALL OUTPUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E.D., 1941, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 148, P. 25.

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, MOHAVE COUNTIES, ARIZONA: U.S.B.M. INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8078, P. 34.

  • Deposit

    LEEMON, D.M., UPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE UNITED STATES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP MR-25.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD INCLUDES INFORMATION FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000840 OF JAMES E. ELLIOTT WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Roth, Frances A. (Dewitt, Ed) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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