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Pride Mine

Producer in La Paz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10109060
MRDS ID M003952
Record type Site
Current site name Pride Mine
Alternate or previous names Arizona Pride

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.03829, 34.15394 (WGS84)
Elevation 396
Relative position 4 MILES WEST OF PLANET PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Paz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Osborne Well(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Parker(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Needles(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imperial Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(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 La Paz

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 009N 017W 04 SE OF NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • IN THE BUCKSKIN MOUNTAINS; EAST OF OSBORNE WASH; NORTH OF THE NEW STANDARD MINE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Hematite Unknown

Analytical data

Result 2 OZ AU/TON, 0.2 OZ AG/TON, LITTLE CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.03829, 34.15394
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Thrust Fault Contact Between Limestone And Metamorphics

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Thin Marble Layers On Or Near Intersections Of Faults And Fractures With Thrust Fault.

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH LOW-ANGLE DETACHMENT FAULTING; OREBODIES ARE WITHIN AND IMMEDIATELY ABOVE THE FLINTY, CHLORITE, MICROBRECCIATED DETACHMENT SURFACE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1911
Year of last production 1912

Mining district

District name Pride District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION RECORD. FEW TENS OF TONS OF ORE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 50 FT SHAFT WITH SEVERAL ADIT TUNNELS

Comments on development

  • PAST OPERATORS INCLUDE: DENTON, OSBORNE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 451, P. 123

  • Deposit

    ABGMT BULL 192, P. 122

  • Deposit

    WILKINS, J., AND HEIDRICK, T. J.; 1982, BASE AND PRECIOUS METAL MINERALIZATION RELATED TO LOW-ANGLE TECTONIC FEATURES IN THE WHIPPLE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA AND BUCKSKIN MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA; IN, MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE COLORADO RIVER REGION, CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, AND NEVADA, EDITED BY FROST, E.G. AND MARTIN D.L.: CORDILLERAN PUBLISHERS, P. 182.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1979 Hall, R. K. (Creasey, S. C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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