Description
Bokares Claim: George Bokares (1938)
Commodities
PrimaryGold
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typePlacer
Deposit sizeS
Orebody formSTREAKS
Ore controlAt Or Near Bedrock On Benches Above The Riverbed.
Materials
Ore mineralsGold
GangueSulfur
Geology
Host rockGravel · Longfellow Limestone
StructureFine Flakes Of Gold Recovered From Well-Graded Stream Gravels And From Coarse, Roughly Bedded Gila Conglomerate Inthe Hills Around Morenci And On The Se Slopes Of Copper King Mountain, Gold Recovered From Quat River Gravels 50-60 Ft Above The Level Of The Present River Bed
Tectonic settingGreat Fault Blocks Ne Of Copper King Mountain; Downthrow Of About 1000 Ft
AlterationSurface Oxidation Of Gold-Bearing Veins Ne Of Copper King Mountain
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
Discovery year1875
Identification
Deposit ID10108994
MRDS IDM001287
Alternate namesEvans Point Fold Placers, Polaris Group Property, Bokares Placer Mine
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates33.10649, -109.28537
References
JOHNSON, M.G., 1972 , PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 1355 , P. 17ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE; BOKARES MINE, POLARIS MINING AND MILLING CO, COLORADO MINEUSGS PROF PAPER 43, 1905, P. 211-212,77,78USBM FILES; AMAX INC., EVANS POINT LIME QUARRYARIZ DEPT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA, POLARIS GROUP AND PARROT GROUP: SEE EVANS POINT GOLD PLACERSMINING REPORTER, V. 53, N. 16, (APRIL 19, 1906), REVIVAL OF GOLD MINING IN CLIFTON-MORENCI, ARIZONA, DISTRICTBENNETT, 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.