Gold King Mine (Gold King property), Baboquivari Mining District, Baboquivari Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Gold King Mine (Gold King property) | Mine |
| Baboquivari Mining District | Mining District |
| Baboquivari Mountains | Mountain Range |
| Pima County | County |
| Arizona | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
31° 42' 27'' North , 111° 36' 43'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| South Komelik | 111 (2011) | 15.3km |
| San Miguel | 197 (2011) | 19.2km |
| Topawa | 299 (2011) | 23.4km |
| Aduana del Sásabe | 1,295 (2018) | 27.0km |
| Ali Chukson | 132 (2011) | 29.0km |
‡Ref.: Wilson, E.D., Cunningham, J.B., and Butler, G.M. (1934), Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining (revised 1967), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 137: 181.
Meeves, H.C. (1966), Nonpegmatite beryllium occurrences in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and four adjacent states, US Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 6828: 59.
Keith, Stanton B. (1974), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, Arizona: 109 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10109601, MRDS ID #M050220; and, Dep. ID #10158972, MAS ID #0040190234.
A former small underground Au-Ag-Cu-Pb-Zn-Mn-Be mine located in the NE ¼ sec. 10, T.20S., R.7E., 2 miles SW of the Iowana property and 14 miles N of Sasabe. First produced 1900 and closed 1963. Owned/operated at times, or in part, by Beals; the Gold King Mining & Development Co.; the Wright Mines & Development Co.; Wright Electric Machines Co.;
and, Riddle.
Mineralization is spotty gold and silver values with minor base metal oxides and sulfides in a quartz-manganese oxide vein along a fault structure cutting metamorphosed Cretaceous sedimentary beds invaded by Laramide granite porphyry dikes. Some beryllium minerals occur along dike contacts.
Workings include shafts, adits, pits and drifts. Probably originally worked prior to 1900 and later in 1933-1937 and in 1963. Produced some 500 or more tons of ore averaging about 1.0 oz. Au/T, 12 oz. Ag/T and minor Cu & Pb.
List of minerals for each chemical element
Other Databases
| Link to USGS MRDS: | 10109601 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
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- Sierra Madre OccidentalMountain Range
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- Sonoran DesertDesert
North America PlateTectonic Plate
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- Mojave DomainDomain
- Southern Basin and RangeWide Rift
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