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Berger Phillips Mine

Past Producer 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102527
MRDS ID M003523
Record type Site
Current site name Berger Phillips Mine
Alternate or previous names Curley Group
Related records 10259140

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.48772, 34.80475 (WGS84)
Elevation 1448
Relative position 14 MILES N OF WIKIEUP, 29 MILES E OF CANE SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cedar Basin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bagdad(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(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 016N 012W 23,24 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • APPROXIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Wolframite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) Early Proterozoic granitic rocks
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 75 - 80 W
    Dip 80 - 85 SW
    Length 137.16M
    Width 0.3M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VEIN IN FAULT FISSURE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1951 - 1954

Mining district

District name Aquarius Mountains District

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION PRIOR TO 1942 , BUT QUANTITIES UNKNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 112.78M
    Overall depth 28.65M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DALE, V. B., 1961 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, AND MOHAVE COUNTIES, ARIZONA, U.S.B.M. INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8078 , P. 69

  • Production

    U.S.B.M. I.C. 8073

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1977 Johnson, K. H. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1978 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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