The Bell and Pinkard Group is a silver and gold mine located in Greenlee county, Arizona at an elevation of 4,400 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: 4,400 Feet (1,341 Meters)
Commodity: Silver, Gold
Lat, Long: 33.06917, -109.39861
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Bell and Pinkard Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Bell and Pinkard Group
Secondary: Bell Group
Secondary: Dover Copper Group Claims
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Copper
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
Owner Name: Dover Copper Mining Co ; Principal Owner: W. V. Tiscornia
Years: 1957 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1949
Year Last Production: 1951
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: LINEAR
Form: LINEAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Irregularly Jointed Porphyry Caused By Intrusive Action Rather Than By Faulting
Type: L
Description: Principal Intrusions Occurred Parallel To Planes Of Sedimentation Which Dip 10-30 Sw
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Limestone Greatly Altered To Epidote And Magnetite With Copper Stains And Pyrite; At The Mouth Of Pinkard Gulch, Limestone Is Locally Altered To Garnet Near Porphyry Contacts; Vein Follows Epidotized Contact Of A Porphyry Dike In Limestone
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Ordovician
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age in Years: 55.500000+-0.500000
Age Young: Tertiary
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Epidote
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Magnetite
Comments
Comment (Geology): MORENCI GRANITE PORPHYRY OCCUPIES THE MAJORITY OF THE UPPER GOLD GULCH VALLEY AND IS EXTENSIVELY INTERBEDDED WITH SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES AS STOCKS, SHEETS, AND DIKES. PORPHYRY IS GREATLY DISINTERGRATED, UNLIKE HARD ROCK FORMING PRECIPITOUS GULLIES IN OTHER REGIONS OF THE DISTRICT. REGIONAL FAULTING PRIOR TO INTRUSION AND MINERALIZATION.
Comment (Deposit): SEE ALSO: DOVER COPPER GROUP ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Location): BELL CLAIMS FORM A CLUSTER OF PROSPECTS AT THE CONFLUENCE OF PINKARD AND GOLD GULCHES AND ARE ALSO LOCATED ON THE WEST AND EAST BLUFFS OVERLOOKING THE MOUTH OF PINKARD GULCH; ABOVE LOCATION COORDINATES DESCRIBE THE CENTRAL ADIT WITHIN THIS CLUSTER. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)
Comment (Development): OPERATORS INCLUDED CY AND MANUEL GOMEZ; BELL CLAIMS I TO II PATENTED BY DOVER COPPER MINING CO; BELL PROPERTY IS ADJACENT TO DOVER COPPER MINING CO GROUPS OF TUCKY AND ST. JOE.
Comment (Deposit): BELL GROUP CLAIMS LOCATED ON OR NEAR THE ISABELLA VEIN.
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPMENT OCCURRED ON BELL CLAIM NO. 2 AND 4, LOCATED IN CENTER OF SECTION 19.
References
Reference (Deposit): BLM DISTRICT SHEET 841.
Reference (Deposit): USGS P 43, P. 292-298.
Reference (Deposit): ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA, UNDER DOVER COPPER.
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, DOVER COPPER MINING CO.
Reference (Deposit): BENNETT, K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METRALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.
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