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Gold Belt Mines

Producer in Greenlee county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Manganese, Zinc
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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. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109874
MRDS ID M800410
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Belt Mines
Alternate or previous names Eagle Gold and Copper Claims, Dover Copper Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.42398, 33.08343 (WGS84)
Elevation 1414
Relative position 4 MILES NW OF MORENCI ON SE SIDE OF COPPERPLATE GULCH; 1.5 MILES NE OF EAGLE RIVER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copperplate Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-San Carlos Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Greenlee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S 028E 13 NW OF SE OF NE OF SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • GOLD BELT CLAIMS NO 6-10 ARE LOCATED IN T45 28E 13NE, T45 29E 18SW, T 45 29E 18NW ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary
Lead Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation Forming Gossans Over Central Orebody

Analytical data

Result ASSAY VALUES RANGED FROM 5 TO 20% CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Rock unit name Coronado Quartzite;Gila Conglomerate (Associated With Volcanic Flows)
    Rock description Coronado Quartzite;Gila Conglomerate (Associated With Volcanic Flows)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 55.5

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.42398, 33.08343
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trending Step-Faults; Mines Are Approximateley 0.25 Mile South Of Copperplate Fault; Fault Block Under Gold Belt Property Has Been Upthrown 1500 Ft
Type of structure Local
Structure description Gold Belt Vein Paralleling Granite Prophyry Dike

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike N45W
    Dip 35 SW
    Length 213.36M
    Width 3.05M
    Depth to bottom 30.48M
  • General form LINEAR
    Dip 35 SW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Well-Defined Fissure Vein In Granite Porphyry Dike

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRANITE PORPHYRY DIKE INTRODUCED COPPER MINERALIZATION TO LOCALITY FROM MAIN MORENCI MONZONITE AND GRANITE PORPHYRY STOCKS WHICH ARE EAST OF THE GOLD BELT MINES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1904
Discoverer Gold Belt Mining Co
Year of first production 1907
Year of last production 1947

Mining district

District name Copper Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Dover Copper Mining Co ; Principal Owner: W. V. Tiscornia
    First year 1957

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 914.4M
    Overall depth 80.77M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT INCLUDED 8 SHAFTS, SEVERAL TUNNELS, 5-STAMP GOLD MILL; ALL 700 FT OF KNOWN OREBOY WAS CONNECTED BY DRIFT WORKINGS ON COMSTOCK GROUP AND GOLD BELT GROUP CLAIMS; GOLD PLACER GRAVELS HAVE BEEN MINED IN COPPERPLATE GULCH SINCE THE EARLY 1880'S

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED EAGLE GOLD AND COPPER MINING CO, GOLD BELT DEVELOPMENT AND REDUCTION CO, G.I. PACE AND M.E. MOSHCETTO, BASS AND PACE, F.S. SCOTT, J.M. SAVAGE, E.C. BUNKER, J.W. ANDERSON, GOLD BELTMINING CO, DOVER COPPER MINING CO

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BLM DISTRICT SHEET 840

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., 1918, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. X111, EAGLE GOLD AND COPPER MINING CO, PAGE 473

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPING FILE, DOVER COPPER MINING CO

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 43

  • Deposit

    MINING REPORTER, VOL. L111, NO 16 (APRIL 19, 1906), PAGES 386-390, REVIVAL OF GOLD MINING IN CLIFTON-MORENCI, ARIZONA, DISTRICT

  • Deposit

    USGS BULLETIN 1355, P. 15-16

  • Deposit

    BENNETT, 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE CO., AZ: MS THESIS UNIV OF AZ

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 20 PATENTED CLAIMS; COPPER ORE LIES IN STREAKS AND POCKETS WITH MANGANESE ORE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1981 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

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