The Tarr Property is a tungsten mine located in Pinal county, Arizona at an elevation of 3,320 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: 3,320 Feet (1,012 Meters)
Commodity: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 32.72694, -110.71250
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Tarr Property MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Tarr Property
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: Silver
Location
State: Arizona
County: Pinal
District: Mammoth District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: IRREGULAR STRINGERS
Structure
Type: R
Description: Block Faulting Trending Nnw. ; Reg.Trends: Post Cretaceous Pre-Pliocene Thrusts And High Angle Normal And Reverse Faults. Cretaceous - Tertiary Intrusives And Consequent Faulting.
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Latite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Wolframite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: CRETACEOUS OR TERTIARY LAVA FLOWS THRUST OVER PRECAMBRIAN QUARTZ MONZONITE.
Comment (Deposit): THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000830 OF JAMES E. ELLIOTT WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Workings): 1 VERTICAL SHAFT SEV. HUNDRED FT. DEEP, NOW INACCESSIBLE AND CONSIDERABLE LATERAL WORKINGS. TWO SHALLOW PITS ON BRECCIATED ZONE PRODUCED A SMALL AMOUNT OF SCHEELITE AND WOLFRAMITE.
Comment (Deposit): QUARTZ STRINGERS CARRY WOLFRAMITE AND SCHEELITE. FOUND IN BRECCIATED ZONES. VEINS RANGE UP TO 6 IN THICK. 7 QUARTZ VEINS.
References
Reference (Deposit): WILSON, E.D., 1941, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 148
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THEU.S., U.S.G.S. MAP, MR-25.
Reference (Deposit): PETERSON, N.P., ARIZ. UNIV. BULL., VOL. 9, NO. 2, P. 43
Reference (Deposit): 1965 GEOLMAP CREASEY, S.C., PROF. PAPER 47
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Production): DALE, V. B., 1959, U.S. BUREAU MINES REPT. OF INV. 5516
Reference (Deposit): CREASEY, S.C., 1965, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 471.
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