The Flying Saucer Group is a tungsten mine located in Maricopa county, Arizona at an elevation of 2,598 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: 2,598 Feet (792 Meters)
Commodity: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 33.87833, -112.83806
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Flying Saucer Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Flying Saucer Group
Secondary: La Mina
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Secondary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Arizona
County: Maricopa
District: Vulture District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: W. C. Kinnon
Years: 1959 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
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: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Pegmatite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age in Years: 68.400000+-1.700000
Age Young: Cretaceous
Name: Granite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age in Years: 68.400000+-1.700000
Age Young: Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 0.01-0.22% WO3 ASSAYS ON 8 SAMPLES.
Materials
Ore: Powellite
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Ferrimolybdite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Commodity): PROPERTY EXAMINED FOR BE BUT NONE DETECTED.
Comment (Development): 6 PATENTED LODE CLAIMS. PREVIOUS OWNER J. FRANK HENDERSON (1950)
Comment (Workings): DISCOVERY SHAFT AND SOME TRENCHING
Comment (Geology): AREAS OF BRILLIANT FLUORESCENCE ARE NOT CRITERIA OF WO3 CONTENT.
Comment (Deposit): THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M002742 WITH RE CORD M800238 OF JAN WILT IN MOLBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G THEORDO RE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :01; 40 1964
References
Reference (Deposit): WILSON, 1941, ABM BULL 148, P. 54.
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Deposit): DALE, 1959, USBM RI 5516, P. 37.
Reference (Deposit): REEVES, 1966, USBM RI 6828, P. 58.
Reference (Deposit): ABM FILE DATA.
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