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Defiance Mine Apache Mine

Past Producer in Gila county in Arizona, United States with commodities Vanadium, Lead, Gold, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008143
MRDS ID D000084
Record type Site
Current site name Defiance Mine Apache Mine
Related records 10258162

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.80069, 33.53341 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gila(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rockinstraw Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Seneca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Salt(hydrologic unit)

Salt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tonto National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Gila

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Primary
Lead Secondary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.80069, 33.53341
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Miami-Inspiration District

Comments on the production information

  • 20 ST ORE CONTAINING 14% V2O5 SHIPPED, 1930 (PETERSON, 1950) OBVIOUSLY HAND-PICKED ORE; NO INFORMATION ON WHERE SHIPPED OR V RECOVERY

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO DATA ON PB, AU, AG RESOURCES; V RESOURCES PROBABLY NIL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PETERSON, N. P., 1950, ARIZ. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 15

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Fischer, Richard P. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.