Thanksgiving Mine (Thanksgiving Gold Mine; Myres Mine; Meyers Mine; Meyers claims; Box Canyon group), Mineral Mountain area, Mineral Mountain Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
33° 10' 53'' North , 111° 11' 34'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Superior | 2,943 (2017) | 15.4km |
| Queen Valley | 788 (2011) | 15.8km |
| Gold Camp | 10,159 (2011) | 16.2km |
| Florence | 31,110 (2017) | 24.6km |
| Top-of-the-World | 231 (2011) | 26.4km |
Nearest Clubs:
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| Club | Location | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Pinal Gem and Mineral Society | Coolidge, Arizona | 38km |
| Gila County Gem & Mineral Society | Miami, Arizona | 39km |
| Apache Junction Rock and Gem Club | Apache Junction, Arizona | 42km |
Mindat Locality ID:
130968
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:130968:6
GUID (UUID V4):
645bf45c-71f1-44f3-941d-3de93f080544
A former surface and underground Au-Cu-Ag mine located on 5 unpatented claims in sec. 11, T3S, R11E, on the E side of a box canyon just S of the Herring Mine, about 1¾ miles E of Mineral Mountain, on BLM-administered land. Produced 1926-1954. Owned by George and Jim Meyers (1962). Operators included J. J. Jackson, C. W. Gardner, G. Meyers, J. Reinbolt, and R. Harding.
Mineralization is a vein deposit hosted in Pinal Schist. The orebody is tabular and 3.05 meters wide in a fissure vein in granite and schist of brecciated country rock cemented by limonite and hematite with free gold. Ore control was a fault zone trending N to NW, associated with the fissure vein. The mineralization is associated with Tertiary intrusive period. Tertiary rhyolite is exposed 1 mile SE of the mine and 1½ miles W of the mine. Area structures include short N-trending faults with both east and west dip; NW-trending fault with NE dip. •
Workings include a cut 80 feet long, 10 feet wide and 15 feet deep.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
2 valid minerals.
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Limonite' | - | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
| Au | Gold | |
| Au | ⓘ Gold | Au |
Other Databases
| Link to USGS MRDS: | 10111299 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
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- Sonoran DesertDesert
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- Mazatzal DomainDomain
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