The Rose Tungsten Mine is a tungsten mine located in Gila county, Arizona at an elevation of 4,800 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: 4,800 Feet (1,463 Meters)
Commodity: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 34.03361, -111.07556
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Rose Tungsten Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Rose Tungsten Mine
Secondary: Shoestring
Secondary: Smith
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Location
State: Arizona
County: Gila
District: Spring Creek 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
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Haught, C. A.
Years: 1980 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1937
Year Last Production: 1958
Discovery Year: 1937
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: IRREGULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Beds Strike Ne And Dip 45nw, Ne Trending Diorite Porphyry Intrusion Has Undergone Silicification And Is Up To 300 Ft Wide. Underlying Beds Are Schistose And In Places Chloritized And Impregnated With Specularite.
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Vein Walls Altered To Sericite. Diorite Porphyry Is Considerably Silicified.
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Wolframite
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Hematite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Tourmaline
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)
Comment (Production): A FEW TONS OF CONCENTRATE WERE PRODUCED IN THE LATE 1930'S AND IN THE LATE 1950'S.
Comment (Deposit): 2 PARALLEL QUARTZ VEINS, 17 FT APART , AVERAGE WIDTH 8 IN.
Comment (Development): PREVIOUS OPERATORS INCLUDED O'QUINN AND J. BINKLEY. FIVE UNPATENTED CLAIMS. PLANNED TO SINK NEW 100 FT SHAFT IN 1941
Comment (Workings): 1 LOWER ADIT MORE THAN 40 FT LONG, 2 UPER ADITS OF SAME LENGTH 50 FT HIGHER, 1 30 FT ADIT FURTHER EAST. MINED BY COYOTING.
Comment (Geology): NO DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAP, BUT MAPPING TO N SHOWS NE STRIKING PRECAMBRIAN SEDIMENTS AND INTRUSIVE ROCKS (GASTIL, 1958). THE SILICIFIED DIORITE PORPHYRY INTRUDES ORE-CONTAINING VEINS, WHICH IN TURN CUT ROCKS OF THE APACHE SERIES.
Comment (Deposit): THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000763 OF J.E. ELLIOTT WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S.: USGS MAP MR-25.
Reference (Deposit): WILSON, E.D., 1941, ARIZ. UNIV. BULL., V. 12, NO. 2.
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 (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Production): DALE, 1961
Reference (Deposit): DALE, V.B., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, AND MOHAVE COUNTIES, ARIZONA: USBM IC 8078, P. 18.
Reference (Deposit): GEOL SOC AM BULL, V. 69, P. 1495-1514 AND PLATES
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.
Reference (Deposit): USBM FILE DATA, CLUSTER NUMBER 1024.
Reference (Deposit): WILSON, E.D., 1941, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 148, P. 27.
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