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Cave Creek District Placers

Producer in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000922
MRDS ID M002740
Record type District
Current site name Cave Creek District Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.97073, 33.87507 (WGS84)
Relative position UTM'S AT BORDER OF CAVE CREEK AND NEW RIVER MESA QUADS, ALONG CAVE CREEK, SECTION 8. PLACERS ARE ALL ALONG CAVE CREEK NORTH AND SOUTH OF SECTION 8. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

New River Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Theodore Roosevelt Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Salt(hydrologic unit)

Salt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Maricopa

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.97073, 33.87507
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name CAVE CREEK DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.J., 1972, PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA, GEOLOGIC SURVEY BULL. 1355, P.24.

  • Deposit

    ORRIS, G.J., AND BLISS, J.D., 1985, GEOLOGIC AND GRADE-VOLUME DATA ON 330 GOLD PLACER DEPOSITS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-213, 172 P.

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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