Carnation Mine, Cienega Mining District, Buckskin Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Carnation Mine | Mine |
| Cienega Mining District | Mining District |
| Buckskin Mountains | Mountain Range |
| La Paz County | County |
| Arizona | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
34° 11' 56'' North , 114° 8' 48'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Parker Strip | 662 (2011) | 5.2km |
| Cienega Springs | 1,798 (2011) | 7.2km |
| Bluewater | 725 (2011) | 11.4km |
| Bluewater | 172 (2011) | 11.8km |
| Parker | 3,046 (2017) | 14.2km |
Nearest Clubs:
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| Club | Location | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Havasu Gem & Mineral Society | Lake Havasu City, Arizona | 36km |
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Gray Eagle Mine; Grey Eagle Mine; Empire Mine
A small former surface and underground Cu-Au-Ag mine located on 19 claims in sec. 16 & NE¼ sec. 17, plus in the NW¼ sec. 21, T10N, R18W (Black Peak 15 minute topo map), E of Billy Mack Mountain; S of Giers Mountain, about 11 miles NE of Parker, on BLM-administered land. Produced 1910 to 1969. Owned at times, or in part, by Watson; Empire Arizona Consolidated Copper Co.; Empire Arizona Copper Co.; Harritt & Davis; Empire Arizona Mining Co.; Strategic Metals Mines; Lucky Tiger Combination Gold mining Co.; Cornejo; Baker & King Copper Mining Co.; American-Arizona Metals Co.; and Woolley. Operated by Mr. Daniel King (1971).
Mineralization is a vein deposit with spotty and irregular lenses and pods of secondary copper minerals associated with hematite carrying gold values, in irregular, vuggy, siliceous replacement bodies in folded and faulted, metamorphosed Paleozoic or Mesozoic limestone, and also in irregular stringers, fractures, and breccia fillings in a strong, wide, silicified thrust fault zone that brought Precambrian metamorphic rocks over the Paleozoic sediments. Strong foldings and fracturing with numerous irregular quartz veins. Quaternary-Tertiary basalt caps to the East. The orebodies are within and above the chloritic, micro-breccoated detachment surface. There are 6 main veins, from 1 to 50 feet in width, traceable for 1500 to 3000 feet each. The ore zone is 914.4 meters long and 15.24 meters wide.
Workings include tunnels, open cuts, test pits and four main shafts: 125 feet, 300 feet, 300 feet, and 600 feet deep. Workings total 1219.2 meters in length. This mine was prospected and mined intermittently from the early 1900's to the 1970's, producing some 8,000 tons of ore averaging about 4% Cu, 0.2 oz. Au/T and 0.05 oz. Ag/T.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
5 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Azurite Formula: Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| ⓘ Chrysocolla Formula: Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| ⓘ Hematite Formula: Fe2O3 |
| ⓘ Malachite Formula: Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| ⓘ Siderite Formula: FeCO3 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Siderite | 5.AB.05 | FeCO3 |
| ⓘ | Azurite | 5.BA.05 | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| ⓘ | Malachite | 5.BA.10 | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| Group 9 - Silicates | |||
| ⓘ | Chrysocolla | 9.ED.20 | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| H | ⓘ Chrysocolla | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| H | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| C | Carbon | |
| C | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| C | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| C | ⓘ Siderite | FeCO3 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Chrysocolla | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| O | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
| O | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Siderite | FeCO3 |
| Al | Aluminium | |
| Al | ⓘ Chrysocolla | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Chrysocolla | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
| Fe | ⓘ Siderite | FeCO3 |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| Cu | ⓘ Chrysocolla | Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1 |
| Cu | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
Other Databases
| GeoNames ID: | 5288547 |
|---|---|
| Link to USGS MRDS: | 10109063 |
| Link to USGS MRDS: | 10234411 |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
North AmericaContinent
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Basin and Range BasinsBasin
- Mojave DomainDomain
- Southern Basin and RangeWide Rift
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References
Bancroft, H. (1911) Reconnaissance of the ore deposits in northern Yuma County, Arizona. Bulletin 451. US Geological Survey p.76-77. doi:10.3133/b451
