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Big Horn

Past Producer in Maricopa 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Production statistics
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10210273
MRDS ID M003334
MAS/MILS ID 0040130891
Record type Site
Current site name Big Horn
Alternate or previous names U.S., Furlough
Related records 10027547

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.02885, 33.71146 (WGS84)
Elevation 732

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hummingbird Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salome(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Centennial Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(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 Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004 N 008 W 01 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Unknown
Silver Unknown

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.02885, 33.71146
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 183M
    Length 1370M
    Width 40M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 FISSURE VEIN
    Shape of Orebody #1 LENTICULAR
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Date of Last Modification 910829

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1942
Year of first production 1987

Mining district

District name Vulture

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Roddy Resources Arizona, Inc.
    Year 1991

Production statistics

  • Year 1988
    Description Production Rate 1000 Short Tons/Day Ore

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    NIEMUTH, N.J. ARIZONA MINERAL DEVELOPMENT 1984-1986. AZ

  • Reserve-Resource

    DEPT. MINES AND MINER. RESOUR., REPORT D-29(87), 1987,

  • Reserve-Resource

    46 PP.

  • Reserve-Resource

    METALS ECONOMICS GROUP. ACTIVE U.S. GOLD MINES. BOULDER,

  • Reserve-Resource

    CO, JUNE, 1988, 593 PP.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 16-DEC-1996 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

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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