The Pure Gold is a tungsten mine located in Pinal county, Arizona at an elevation of 5,000 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: 5,000 Feet (1,524 Meters)
Commodity: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 32.55833, -110.73556
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Pure Gold MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Pure Gold
Secondary: Campo Bonito Group
Secondary: Bonito Mines
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Location
State: Arizona
County: Pinal
District: Oracle District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Owner Name: E. H. Molson
Years: 1959 -
Owner Name: E. H. Molson And E. J. Ewing ; (Year Of Info
Years: 1943 - 1944
Production
Year: 1944
Time Period: 1943-1944
Material type: ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^1.51% Wo3
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1943
Year Last Production: 1944
Discovery Year: 1943
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
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: TABULAR TO IRREGULAR MASSIVE
Structure
Type: R
Description: Block Faulting Trending Nnw ; Reg.Trends: Post Cretaceous & Pre-Pliocene Thrust & High Angle Normal And Reverse Faults. Cretaceous-Tertiary Intrusives And Consequent Faulting.
Type: L
Description: Mogul Fault
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification Of Breccia, Dolomitization
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Mississippian
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Mississippian
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Dolomite
Comments
Comment (Development): ECON.COM: GOOD ACCESS BY ROAD FROM ORACLE OR SAN MANUEL.
Comment (Workings): TWO ADITS, 175 AND 88 FT; 2 SHALLOW SHAFTS; TWO INCLINED SHAFTS UP TO 35 FT. DEEP. ONE OPEN CUT 160 BY 30 FT. ALSO ABOVE CODY TUNNEL IS AN ADIT OF 315 FT. WITH 40 FT. WINZE.
Comment (Geology): PREC GRANITE UNDERLIES ORE TO NE OF MOGUL FAULT. FAULT TRENDING N OF W BRINGS PALEOZOIC AND PRECAMBRIAN SEDIMENTARY AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS ON SOUTH INTO CONTACT WITH PRECAMBRIAN GRANITE ON THE NORTH. ZONE OF BRECCIATION IS ABOUT 50 FT. THICK. AT PURE GOLD MINE, BRECCIA IS SILICIFIED AND MINERALIZED.
Comment (Deposit): SEE ALSO RECORD M030487, MAUDINA MINE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)
Comment (Production): PRODUCTION EQUILVALENT TO 11, 815 SHORT TON UNITS OF WO3 (1 SHORT TON UNIT = 20 LBS OF WO3 CONTAINING 15.862 LB OF W). OR 85 MT OF CONTAINED W.
Comment (Deposit): SILICIFIED, BRECCIATED LIMESTONE, LOCALLY DOLOMITIZED, CONTAINS ORE. MARBLE NEAR ORE.
References
Reference (Deposit): SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.
Reference (Deposit): 1944 COMPILE STRATEGIC MINERALS INVESTIGATION
Reference (Deposit): 1944 DIREXPL MT. LEMMON MINING CO. DRILL HOLES.
Reference (Deposit): 1949 DIREXPL MT. LEMMON MINING CO. DRILL HOLES.
Reference (Deposit): 1959 COMPILE U.S. BUREAU MINES, R.I. 5516
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Production): DALE, V.B., 1959.
Reference (Deposit): DALE, V.B., 1959, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF YUMA, MARICOPA, PINAL, AND GRAHAM COUNTIES, ARIZONA: U.S. BUREAU MINES REPT. OF INV. 5516, 68 P.
Reference (Deposit): LUDDEN, R.W. JR., 1950, GEOLOGY OF THE CAMPO BENITO AREA, ORACLE, ARIZONA: TUCSON, ARIZ., UNIV. ARIZONA, M.S. THESIS, 49 P.
Reference (Deposit): WILSON, E.D., 1941, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 148, 54 P.
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