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American

Past Producer in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10283740
MRDS ID M003759
MAS/MILS ID 0040150332
Record type Site
Current site name American
Related records 10027665

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -113.55437, 34.30395 (WGS84)
Elevation 488
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Artillery Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Alamo Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bill Williams(hydrologic unit)

Bill Williams(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

USACE(Federal land areas administered by USACE)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Mohave

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 011 N 012 W 07 NW Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -113.55437, 34.30395
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner F. O. Peteraon
    Year 1977
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Homestake Mining Co.
    Home office Colorado
    Year 1979

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS 15 ARTILLERY PK MAP

  • Deposit

    ADMR MOHAVE COUNTY CARD FILE

  • Deposit

    ADMR BLACK DIAMOND-AMERICAN MINE

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 7843,P51

  • Deposit

    MOHAVE CUSTOM MILLS PROJ. CARD FILE

  • Deposit

    MALACH,R.,MOHAVE CO. MINES,1977,P32

  • Deposit

    BLM AMC FILE #49658

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-NOV-1983 Admr U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Homestake Mining Co. — acquired by Subsidiary of Barrick Gold (2001)
    Operator of the historic Homestake Mine in South Dakota; acquired by Barrick Gold in 2001.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

External references

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Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.