The Chase Creek Placers is a gold mine located in Greenlee county, Arizona at an elevation of 3,599 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 3,599 Feet (1,097 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 33.05972, -109.32056
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Chase Creek Placers MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Chase Creek Placers
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Arizona
County: Greenlee
District: Copper Mountain District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: DISPERSED FLAKES IN STREAM GRAVELS
Structure
Type: R
Description: Fine Flakes Of Gold Recovered From Well-Graded Stream Gravels And From Coarse, Roughly Bedded Gila Conglomerate In The Hills Around Morenci And On The Se Slopes Of Copper King Mountain
Type: L
Description: Placer Gold Found In Sand Extensively Mixed With Relatively Unconsolidated Gravels Containing Volcanic Rocks, Granite, Limestone, And Quartz Porphyry
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Surface Oxidation Of Gold-Bearing Veins In The Vicinity
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Paleocene
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Pleistocene
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Gravel
Comments
Comment (Deposit): PLACER DEPOSITS COMPRISE 17 PATENTED CLAIMS.
Comment (Location): PLACER MINING WAS CONCENTRTED BETWEEN ROCK HOUSE CANYON AND CLIFTON. GEODETIC AND UTM COORDINATES DESCRIBE THE 3 PATENTED CHASE CREEK PLACER CLAIMS IN THE NW QUARTER OF SECTION 25. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)
Comment (Geology): GILA CONGLOMERATE HAS NOT BEEN WARPED OR DISLOCATED BY FAULTING. PLACER GOLD WAS DERIVED FROM OXIDIZED GOLD-BEARING VEINS ASSOCIATTED WITH A PORPHYRY SILL BETWEEN QUARTZITE AND LIMESTONE ON THE RIDGE BETWEEN CHASE CREEK AND MORENCI CANYON.
References
Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, M.G., 1972, PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 1355, P. 15.
Reference (Deposit): BLM DISTRICT SHEET 842.
Reference (Deposit): USGS PROF PAPER 43 (1905), P. 75-77, 212.
Reference (Deposit): BENNETT, 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
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