Carnation Mine (Gray Eagle Mine; Grey Eagle Mine; Empire Mine), Cienega Mining District, Buckskin Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
34° 11' 56'' North , 114° 8' 46'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Parker Strip | 662 (2011) | 5.3km |
| Cienega Springs | 1,798 (2011) | 7.3km |
| Bluewater | 725 (2011) | 11.4km |
| Bluewater | 172 (2011) | 11.8km |
| Parker | 3,046 (2017) | 14.2km |
Nearest Clubs:
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| Club | Location | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Havasu Gem & Mineral Society | Lake Havasu City, Arizona | 36km |
Mindat Locality ID:
33416
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:33416:8
GUID (UUID V4):
ac00b451-f59b-4bb6-81c5-b5fa4efbd878
‡Ref.: Bancroft, H. (1911), Reconnaissance of the ore deposits in northern Yuma County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 451: 76-77.
Wilson, E.D., Cunningham, J.B., and Butler, G.M. (1934), Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining (revised 1967), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 137: 126.
Zambrano, Elias (1965) Geology of the Cienega mining district, northwest Yuma County, Arizona: Rolla, University of Missouri, M.S. thesis, 64 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.
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: 123 (Table 4).
Wilkins, J. and Heidrick, T.L. (1982) Base and Precious Metal Mineralization Related to Low-Angle Tectonic Features in the Whipple Mountains, California and Buckskin Mountains, Arizona. In: Mesozoic-Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Colorado River Region, California, Arizona, and Nevada. Cordilleran Publisher: 182.
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 8 (Table 1).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10109063, MRDS ID #M004111; and, Dep. ID #10234411, MAS ID #0040120130.
A small former surface and underground Cu-Au-Ag mine located on 19 claims in sec. 16 & NE¼ sec. 17, plus in the NW¼ sec. 21, T10N, R18W (Black Peak 15 minute topo map), E of Billy Mack Mountain; S of Giers Mountain, about 11 miles NE of Parker, on BLM-administered land. Produced 1910 to 1969. Owned at times, or in part, by Watson; Empire Arizona Consolidated Copper Co.; Empire Arizona Copper Co.; Harritt & Davis; Empire Arizona Mining Co.; Strategic Metals Mines; Lucky Tiger Combination Gold mining Co.; Cornejo; Baker & King Copper Mining Co.; American-Arizona Metals Co.; and Woolley. Operated by Mr. Daniel King (1971).
Mineralization is a vein deposit with spotty and irregular lenses and pods of secondary copper minerals associated with hematite carrying gold values, in irregular, vuggy, siliceous replacement bodies in folded and faulted, metamorphosed Paleozoic or Mesozoic limestone, and also in irregular stringers, fractures, and breccia fillings in a strong, wide, silicified thrust fault zone that brought Precambrian metamorphic rocks over the Paleozoic sediments. Strong foldings and fracturing with numerous irregular quartz veins. Quaternary-Tertiary basalt caps to the East. The orebodies are within and above the chloritic, micro-breccoated detachment surface. There are 6 main veins, from 1 to 50 feet in width, traceable for 1500 to 3000 feet each. The ore zone is 914.4 meters long and 15.24 meters wide.
Workings include tunnels, open cuts, test pits and four main shafts: 125 feet, 300 feet, 300 feet, and 600 feet deep. Workings total 1219.2 meters in length. This mine was prospected and mined intermittently from the early 1900's to the 1970's, producing some 8,000 tons of ore averaging about 4% Cu, 0.2 oz. Au/T and 0.05 oz. Ag/T.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Azurite Formula: Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| ⓘ Chrysocolla Formula: Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| ⓘ Hematite Formula: Fe2O3 |
| ⓘ Malachite Formula: Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| ⓘ Siderite Formula: FeCO3 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Siderite | 5.AB.05 | FeCO3 |
| ⓘ | Azurite | 5.BA.05 | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| ⓘ | Malachite | 5.BA.10 | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| Group 9 - Silicates | |||
| ⓘ | Chrysocolla | 9.ED.20 | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| H | ⓘ Chrysocolla | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| H | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| C | Carbon | |
| C | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| C | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| C | ⓘ Siderite | FeCO3 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Chrysocolla | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| O | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
| O | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Siderite | FeCO3 |
| Al | Aluminium | |
| Al | ⓘ Chrysocolla | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Chrysocolla | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
| Fe | ⓘ Siderite | FeCO3 |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| Cu | ⓘ Chrysocolla | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| Cu | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
Other Databases
| Link to USGS MRDS: | 10109063 |
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