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Occident Mine

Past Producer in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102582
MRDS ID M004558
Record type Site
Current site name Occident Mine
Alternate or previous names Occidental Mine
Related records 10234480

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.38525, 35.72307 (WGS84)
Elevation 902
Relative position 0.5 MILE SOUTH OF WHITE HILLS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Hills West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Boulder City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Detrital Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(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 027N 020W 14 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Strongly Oxidized

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.38525, 35.72307
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Schistosity Dips 30 N

Ore body information

  • Dip 60 N
    Width 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1941

Mining district

District name White Hills District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • REPORTED IN 1909 TO HAVE BEEN A "HEAVY PRODUCER".

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1524M
    Overall depth 167.64M

Comments on the workings information

  • 8 LEVELS OF WORKINGS

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED W.R. KILLERS, C. ROSSEAU, J.R. SMITH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., 1909, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CERBAT RANGE, BLACK MOUNTAINS, AND THE GRAND WASH CLIFFS, MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. BULL. 397, P. 134.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    THOMPSON, 1925, ARIZ. MINING JOUR., NOV., V. 9, NO. 12, P. 7.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1995 Orris, Greta J. 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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