Revenue Mine group, Santa Maria Mining District (Planet Mining District; Swansea Mining District; Bill Williams Mining District), Buckskin Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
34° 9' 59'' North , 113° 51' 42'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Bouse | 996 (2011) | 29.2km |
| Parker Strip | 662 (2011) | 31.5km |
| Cienega Springs | 1,798 (2011) | 33.5km |
| Utting | 126 (2011) | 36.5km |
| Bluewater | 725 (2011) | 37.1km |
Mindat Locality ID:
33778
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:33778:5
GUID (UUID V4):
d8d6d6a7-ae49-4cf6-9cab-07e421b5905a
‡Ref.: Keith, Stanton B. (1978) State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 192, Index of Mining Properties in Yuma County, Arizona: 173 (Table 4).
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 9 (Table 1).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10137422, MAS ID #0040120406.
A former underground Cu-Fe-Ag-Au mine located in the center (SE¼SE¼NW¼) of sec. 31, T10N, R15W (Swansea 15 minute topo map), on land of unknown status. Owned at times, or in part, by Mr. Osborne; and, the Arizona Revenue Copper Co. (1910).
Mineralization is oxidized copper minerals in lensing hematite replacement bodies in folded and faulted Paleozoic limestone along a fault contact with underlying Precambrian metamorphic rocks. Some laramide intrusive granite is in the vicinity.
Workings include a shaft(s). This mine was worked intermittently in the 1910's. It produced some 200 tons of ore averaging about 2% Cu and minor gold.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsGallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
Other Databases
| Link to USGS MRDS: | 10137422 |
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