Tatum group of claims (Lost Packer group), Maricopa County belt, Sunflower Mining District (Mazatzal Mountains Mining District; Quicksilver Mining District), Maricopa County, Arizona, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude:
33° North , 112° West (est.)
Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.
Margin of Error:
~136km
Type:
Group of Claims
Mindat Locality ID:
56983
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:56983:4
GUID (UUID V4):
bf374f3e-0b83-4ea9-9944-16194a86394d
‡Ref.: Ransome, F.L. (1916), Quicksilver Deposits of the Mazatzal Range, Arizona, in Contributions to Economic Geology by F.L. Ransome & H.S. Gale, USGS Bull. 620: 119-122.
A group of 6 mercury claims owned by Bowman & Reynolds.
The claims comprising this group are from SW to NE, beginning SE of Pine Mountain, are as follows: Mercury Sulphide No. 3, Bernice No. 1, Mercury Sulphide No. 1, Mercury Sulfide No. 2, North Star No. 1, North Star No. 2, Northern Light No. 1, and the Mercury Sulphide Nos. 4, 5, 6, and 7. The end line between North Star No. 1 and North Star No. 2 lies along the bed of Gold Creek (Gila County).
Mineralization is a stringer of ferruginous carbonate, quartz, and cinnabar, that is from 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.5 cm).
Workings include 2 tunnels. The lower is at a reported altitude of 4,900 feet, and is between 200 and 300 feet long but had not yet reached the lode. The uppwer tunnel, about 150 feet higher up the same hill, was about 235 feet long. It runs S.33ºE. and crosscuts the schists, which here dip 60º to 70ºSE, whereas the prevailing dip in the district is to the northwest.
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
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ⓘ | Cinnabar | 2.CD.15a | HgS |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
ⓘ | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
ⓘ | var. Specularite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
Unclassified | |||
ⓘ | 'Limonite' | - |
List of minerals for each chemical element
C | Carbon | |
---|---|---|
C | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
O | Oxygen | |
O | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
O | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
O | ⓘ Hematite var. Specularite | Fe2O3 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | ⓘ Cinnabar | HgS |
Ca | Calcium | |
Ca | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
Fe | ⓘ Hematite var. Specularite | Fe2O3 |
Hg | Mercury | |
Hg | ⓘ Cinnabar | HgS |
Localities in this Region
- Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Sunflower Mining District (Mazatzal Mountains Mining District; Quicksilver Mining District)
- Maricopa County belt
- Tatum group of claims (Lost Packer group)
- Maricopa County belt
- Sunflower Mining District (Mazatzal Mountains Mining District; Quicksilver Mining District)
- Maricopa County
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
North America
- Sonoran DesertDesert
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Basin and Range BasinsBasin
- Mazatzal DomainDomain
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