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Mineral Resources of the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona NOV-5199U Wnc «IRV»» Mineral Resources of the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1701-F ARIZONA Chapter F Mineral Resources of the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona By HARALD DREWES, ED DEWITT, RANDALL H. HILL, WILLIAM F. HAN'NA, and DANIEL H. KNEPPER, JR. U.S. Geological Survey STEVE N E. TUFTIN U.S. Bureau of Mines STEPHEN J. REYNOLDS and JON E. SPENCER Arizona Geological Survey SARWAR AZAM Pakistan Geological Survey U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1701 MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS- WESTERN ARIZONA AND PART OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY frllMl«illMMimtlBi'ritilllillMim in ,1, * DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL LUJAN, JR., Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Dallas L. Peck, Director Any use of trade, product, or firm names in this publication is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1990 For sale by the Books and Open-File Reports Section U.S. Geological Survey Federal Center Box 25425 Denver, CO 80225 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineral resources of the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona. (Mineral resources of wilderness study areas western Arizona and part of San Bernardino County, California ; ch. F) (Studies related to wilderness- Bureau of Land Management wilderness study areas) (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1701-F) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Mines and mineral resources Arizona Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness. 2. Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness (Ariz.). I. Drewes, Harald, 1927- . II. Series. III. Series: Studies related to wilderness Bureau of Land Management wilderness study areas. IV. Series: U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1701-F. QE75.B9 no. 1701-F 557.3 S [553'.09791'72] 90-2875 [TN24.A6] STUDIES RELATED TO WILDERNESS Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Study Areas The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (Public Law 94-579, October 21, 1976) requires the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines to conduct mineral surveys on certain areas to determine the mineral values, if any, that may be present. Results must be made available to the public and be submitted to the President and the Congress. This report presents the results of a mineral survey of a part of the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area (AZr^)20-075), La Paz County, Arizona. CONTENTS Abstract Fl Summary Fl Identified resources F2 Mineral resource potential F2 Introduction F4 Investigations by the U.S. Bureau of Mines F4 Investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey F4 Appraisal of identified resources F4 Methods of investigation F5 Mining history F5 Identified resources F5 Webber mine area F5 Happy Camp Canyon area F8 Miscellaneous prospects F8 Assessment of mineral resource potential F9 Geologic setting F9 Lithologic descriptions F9 Proterozoic structural features Fll Mesozoic structural features Fll Tertiary structural features F12 Geochemical investigation F13 Methods of study F13 Geochemical results F14 Remote sensing investigation F18 Geophysical investigation F18 Mineral and energy resource potential F22 Copper, silver, gold, lead, or tungsten related to formation of northwest-trending shear zones, veins, and microgabbro dikes F22 Silver, gold, copper, lead, and zinc related to the Bullard detachment fault F24 Oil, gas, coal, and geothermal energy F25 Other commodities and deposit types F25 Recommendations for further study F26 References cited F26 PLATE [Plate is in pocket] 1. Map showing identified resources, mineral resource potential, geology, and sample sites for the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area. Contents FIGURES 1. Index map showing location of the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area F3 2. Summary map showing identified resources and mineral resource potential of the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area F6 3. Index map of oil and gas leases and lease applications, Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area and vicinity F8 4. Bouguer gravity anomaly map of the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area and vicinity F20 5. Magnetic anomaly map of the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area and vicinity F21 TABLES 1. Anomalous and highly anomalous concentrations of selected elements in minus-60-mesh fraction of stream-sediment samples and panned concentrates, Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area F15 2. Anomalous and highly anomalous concentrations of seslected elements in rock- chip samples, Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area F16 3. Summary of areas that have mineral resource potential in and adjacent to the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area F23 VI Contents MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS-WESTERN ARIZONA AND PART OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Mineral Resources of the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona By Harald Drewes, Ed DeWitt, Randall H. Hill, William F. Hanna, and Daniel H. Knepper, Jr. U.S. Geological Survey Steven E. Tuftin U.S. Bureau of Mines Stephen J. Reynolds and Jon E. Spencer Arizona Geological Survey Sarwar Azam Pakistan Geological Survey ABSTRACT gold, and silver in massive sulfide deposits; a low potential for rare-earth minerals, feldspar, and mica in pegmatites; and Two small areas in the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness a low potential for deposits of placer gold. Study Area (AZ-020-075) contain inferred subeconomic resources. One area has 8,000 tons of identified resources of 1.8 percent copper, and the other has 2,000 tons of 0.030 SUMMARY ounce-per-short ton gold and 1.15 percent copper (fig. 1). Four separate areas that together constitute about 36 percent As requested by the U.S. Bureau of Land of the study area have a moderate resource potential for Management, the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. either silver, gold, copper, lead, or tungsten in small to Bureau of Mines studied 25,287 acres of the Harcuvar medium-size vein or disseminated deposits. The remaining Mountains Wilderness Study Area (AZ-020-075) in the 64 percent has an unknown resource potential for gold in central part of western Arizona, 40-50 miles west of small to medium-size disseminated deposits. Two areas Wickenburg (fig. 1). The mountains are a typical desert having moderate and high resource potential for gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc are within 1 mile of the study area. The range of western Arizona, rugged, but only moderately entire study area has a low potential for oil, gas, coal, high. Elevation ranges from about 2,400 ft to slightly less geothermal resources, sand and gravel, industrial rocks and than 5,000 ft. The Harcuvar Mountains are the central of minerals, and decorative and ornamental stone. The entire three northeast-trending ranges, all of which trend at study area also has a low potential for copper, zinc, lead, high angles to the more northerly and northwesterly orientation of adjacent mountains. To the southeast, McMullen Valley separates the Harcuvar Mountains from the Harquahala Mountains; to the northwest, Manuscript approved for publication, September 29, 1989. Butler Valley lies between the Harcuvar Mountains and Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area F1 the Buckskin Mountains. The Atchison, Topeka, and Two areas outside the wilderness study area also Santa Fe Railroad and U.S. Highway 60 parallel have potential for undiscovered metallic resources in McMullen Valley, which contains the towns of Wenden small to medium-size vein or disseminated deposits. and Aquila and agricultural farms. Butler Valley is quite Within 0.5 mi to the northeast of the study area, an area barren and has only a ranch road and abandoned ranch has moderate resource potential for silver, gold, and facilities. The area is accessible from trails leading away copper. Within 1 mi to the east of the study area, an area from U.S. Highway 60 and the paved road leading from has high resource potential for gold, silver, copper, lead, Wenden to Alamo Dam on the northwest side of the range. and zinc. The study area is underlain mainly by Early Prot- Paleozoic or Mesozoic rocks that could act as erozoic (see geologic time chart in Appendix) amphib- either reservoir or source rocks for oil or gas are not olite, schist, and deformed granitic rocks that are about present in the study area. Also, no strata are present that 1.7 billion years old. These crystalline rocks are intruded contain significant quantities of organic material or coal. by the Late Cretaceous granite of Tank Pass. Early Furthermore, if those rocks were present at depth, they Miocene microgabbro dikes cut the older rocks, as do would most likely be metamorphosed and would be northwest-trending faults and shear zones. Oligocene(?) purged of oil and gas. Therefore, the study area has low to Miocene volcanic and sedimentary rocks are locally potential for oil, gas, and coal. present on the northwest and southeast flanks of the Geothermal energy sources are likewise not range in the upper plate of the regionally extensive present, as there are no surface geologic indications of Bullard detachment fault. Crystalline rocks of the Har- hot springs, nor does water from any wells in valleys cuvar Mountains are arched to form a broad anticline adjacent to the study area have anomalous temperatures whose axis lies about along the range crest. The or chemistries indicative of mineral-rich hot springs. detachment fault, likewise, appears to be arched about Therefore, the study area has a low potential for geo- this axis and dips away from the range on all sides. thermal energy resources. The study area contains significant amounts of sand and gravel, especially along the northwestern and Identified Resources southeastern borders of the Harcuvar Mountains. This material is very poorly sorted and contains many cobbles Two mineralized areas in the Harcuvar Mountains and boulders. Therefore, the study area has only a low Wilderness Study Area contain inferred subeconomic resource potential for sand and gravel.
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