| Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans | |
| Maricopa | county |
| Arizona | state |
| United States | country |
| North America | continent |
| Land | continent |
| Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS | |
| Vulture Mine | quadrangle 1:24,000 scale |
| Phoenix North | quadrangle 1:100,000 scale |
| Phoenix | quadrangle 1:250,000 scale |
| Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units) | |
| Hassayampa | hydrologic unit |
| Lower Gila-Agua Fria | hydrologic accounting unit |
| Lower Gila | hydrologic subregion |
| Lower Colorado | hydrologic region |
| Unit | State | Lithology |
|---|---|---|
| Holocene surficial deposits | AZ | Holocene |
| Early Proterozoic metamorphic rocks | AZ | Early Proterozoic |
| ID | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Phoenix | M/R-D | Phoenix 5381 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of AZ |
| Tract | Deposit Type | Mineralization age |
|---|---|---|
| SB17 | Porphyry Cu-Au | Laramide |
| SB34 | Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite | Tertiary |
| SB25 | Massive sulfide, kuroko | Proterozoic |
| SB29 | Epithermal vein, Comstock | Tertiary |
| SB39 | Hot-spring Au-Ag | Tertiary |
| SB11 | Porphyry Cu | Laramide |
| Domain | Crust type | Region |
|---|---|---|
| Mojave | Lateral-extensional orogen | Central and Southwest |
| Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
|---|---|---|
| 5205142 | 1979-11-23 | Soil sample sieved to less than 149 microns (-100 mesh). |
| Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
|---|---|---|
| 1116420 | 1979-11-23 | Well water sample filtered through a 0.8 micron filter at the site. |
| 1116421 | 1979-11-23 | Well water sample filtered through a 0.8 micron filter at the site. |
| Site name | Development | Commodities |
|---|---|---|
| Vulture | Past Producer | AU AG CU FE PB MO W V ZN LI |
| Vulture Tailings Leach | Unknown | AU |
| Gold Knob | Occurrence | AU |
| Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
|---|---|---|
| Western Sierra Madre Occidental and Laramide Central | porphyry copper | Belt of Late Cretaceous to middle Eocene (Laramide) magmatic arc rocks in the Sierra Madre Occidental, eastern Mexican Basin and Range, and the Mesa Central of north-central Mexico and extensions north in to the U.S |
| Tertiary Central Plateau and Rocky Mountains | porphyry copper | Belt of middle Tertiary (Oligocene-Miocene) granitic to intermediate intrusive rocks & volcanics associated w/post-Laramide stage of magmatism in northern Mexico and Mid-Tertiary volcanic fields associated w/post-subduction extension in eastern Rocky Mtns |
| Southern California Batholith | porphyry copper | Jurassic-Early Cretaceous island arc(s) of western Baja California, including the western part of the Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith and associated volcanic rocks |
| Western Mexican Basin and Range and Laramide Southwest | porphyry copper | Late Cretaceous to middle Eocene island arc and continental arc rocks along the western margin of Mexico and extending north into the U.S. |
| Western U.S. and Sonoran Desert Jurassic Arc | porphyry copper | U.S. and Mexican parts of a composite island-continental margin arc that formed during subduction of the Farallon Plate beneath western North America |