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Bomboy Mine

Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Vanadium
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109779
MRDS ID M241190
Record type Site
Current site name Bomboy Mine
Alternate or previous names King Copper Group, Bumboy, Bombay
Related records 10210569

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.21403, 33.31925 (WGS84)
Elevation 746
Relative position 1.1 MILES SE OF ROBLAS PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Picketpost Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tonto National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 001S 011E 26 NW OF NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 2 1/2 MILES WESTERLY FROM HEWITT STATION, SUPERIOR IS 8 MILES EAST BY AIR, 13 MILES BY ROAD ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Copper Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Iron Staining

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Pliocene to middle Miocene deposits
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Quartzite On Hanging Wall, Diabase Dike Below

Ore body information

  • Strike N25E
    Dip 45E
    Length 21.34M
    Width 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along Dike, N25e Trend

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT PROBABLY IN PRECAMORIAN EPICLASTIC ROCKS, AGE OF MINERALIZATION UNKNOWN, NO DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAP OF AREA. QUARTZITE REPORTED AS CAMBRIAN IN 1943. ADMR, MAY BE BOLSA, OR MAY BE PREC TROY QUARTZITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1916
Year of last production 1971

Mining district

District name Wood Camp Canyon District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.035HA
    Length 213.36M
    Overall depth 60.96M
    Overall length 121.92M
    Overall width 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • DIMENSIONS FROM MINE MAP, 1943. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF WORKINGS MAY HAVE OCCURRED.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED; ETHEL GREY, WEST AND RUSSEL, GUZMANN AND SCHWARTZ M., GRAY AND DAVY, C. BOMBOY, T.D. TEAKELL, DAN KINNARD, T.D. TROCHELL, KING COPPER MINE, ANTON JOHNSON, 56, TOM C. GRAY, 1955.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ADMR BOMBOY MINE FILE

  • Deposit

    USBM FILE CLUSTER 402

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 VEINS, ONE 3 TO 5 FT WIDE, 70 FT LONG, ONE 4-5 FT WIDE, 50 FT LONG

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1982 Gest, Don E. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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

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