Golden Mile Mine (Corley Lind and Ellington Mine No. 3), Lost Basin Mining District, Mohave County, Arizona, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Golden Mile Mine (Corley Lind and Ellington Mine No. 3) | Mine |
| Lost Basin Mining District | Mining District |
| Mohave County | County |
| Arizona | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
35° 54' 56'' North , 114° 8' 25'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Meadview | 1,224 (2011) | 11.6km |
| White Hills | 323 (2011) | 30.4km |
| Dolan Springs | 2,033 (2011) | 37.9km |
| Antares | 126 (2011) | 62.8km |
A former Pb-Cu-U-Au occurrence/mine located in the NW¼ sec. 8, T29N, R17W, G&SRM, on Bureau of Land Management administered land. Owned by Jim R. Corley (1953). The USGS MRDS database stated accuracy for this locality is 500 meters.
Mineralization is a prominent quartz vein, 1 to 2 meters thick. The vein strikes N70W and dips 20-25SW. It is offset in a reverse sense approximately 1 meter by an intensely clay-altered shear zone striking E-W and dipping 40N. Iron-bearing calcite occurs in coarsely crystalline, irregular masses which are markedly tabular and form lenses striking N20W and dipping 30SW. These lenticular and irregularly shaped calcite pods definitely are oriented obliquely to the plane of the vein and may represent replacement of earlier quartz along open gash fractures. The bulk of this carbonate occurs along the central zone of the vein, but it is sporadically distributed throughout the length of the examined vein. A poorly-developed alteration zone in the vein's walls seems to include albite and pyrite+galena and a little chalcopyrite. A second oblique slip fault offsets the vein 1 meter West of the incline. Slickensides plunge N65E at 25º. Crystals of feldspar (albite ?), quartz, and calcite commonly reach 10 to 15 cm across in optically continuous, irregular, intergrown masses. Galena can be seen to vein or crosscut calcite, feldspar, and quartz - probably the galena, pyrite, and traces of chalcopyrite are somewhat later than the coarse crystalline material although all are probably related to transition pegmatite-vein processes. Local rocks include Early Proterozoic metamorphic rocks.
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This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
5 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Calcite Formula: CaCO3 |
| ⓘ Calcite var. Iron-bearing Calcite Formula: (Ca,Fe)CO3 |
| ⓘ Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ 'Feldspar Group' Habit: Coarse Description: Albite (?). Coarse crystals to 10 to 15 cm diameter. |
| ⓘ Galena Formula: PbS |
| ⓘ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
| ⓘ | var. Iron-bearing Calcite | 5.AB.05 | (Ca,Fe)CO3 |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Feldspar Group' | - | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| C | Carbon | |
|---|---|---|
| C | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| C | ⓘ Calcite var. Iron-bearing Calcite | (Ca,Fe)CO3 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Calcite var. Iron-bearing Calcite | (Ca,Fe)CO3 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| S | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| Ca | ⓘ Calcite var. Iron-bearing Calcite | (Ca,Fe)CO3 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Calcite var. Iron-bearing Calcite | (Ca,Fe)CO3 |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Pb | Lead | |
| Pb | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
Other Databases
| Link to USGS MRDS: | 10283749 |
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