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Pat Alunite

Occurrence in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Aluminum, Potassium, Talc-Soapstone, Kaolin
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Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Reserves and resources
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009276
MRDS ID D002154
Record type Site
Current site name Pat Alunite
Alternate or previous names Patagonia Property, Pat Property
Related records 10234982

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.75068, 31.4557 (WGS84)
Elevation 1935

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cumero Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Santa Cruz(hydrologic unit)

Santa Cruz(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Coronado 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 Santa Cruz

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • ALUNITIZED ZONE EXTENDS SOUTHEASTWARD INTO ADJOINING LOCHIEL 15 MIN. QUADRANGLE. USBM GIVES LOCATION AS 31-30-21N, 110-43-35W AND T22S, R16E, SEC 21.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Primary
Potassium Primary
Talc-Soapstone Tertiary
Kaolin Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Ore
Kaolinite Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Phyllic, Sericitic

Analytical data

Result F. S. SIMONS UNPUB. X-RAY DATA SUGGEST ALUNITIZATION EXTENSIVE BUT IRREG.
Result MUCH KAOLINITE, SERICITE, AND PYROPHYLLITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Comoro Granite;Mt. Wrightson Formation;
    Rock description Comoro Granite;Mt. Wrightson Formation;
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.75068, 31.4557
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form HIGHLY IRREGULAR AND DISCONTINUOUS ELONGATED BLANKET OR LENS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Intrusions, Lithology

Comments on the geologic information

  • ALTERATION AFFECTED AT LEAST FOUR DISTINCT FORMATIONS MAPPED BY SIMONS (1974).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1909
Discoverer F. C. Schrader Usgs

Mining district

District name Palmetto District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Earth Sciences, Inc. ; National Steel Corp. ; Southwire Co.
    First year 1975

Comments on the production information

  • CONSIDERABLE PROD BASE AND PRECIOUS METALS; NO ALUNITE PROD

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1974
    Total resources 43990000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Aluminum Alunite 30 wt-pct Aluminum Major 1974

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • DATA INSUFFICIENT TO ESTIMATE RESERVES
  • SIMONS MAPPED INTERMITTENTLY ALUNITIZED ZONE 15,000 FT LONG, 3,500 FT WIDE TRENDING N 20 W. RESOURCE EST. BY R. B. HALL

Comments on the workings information

  • ALL MINE WORKS FOR METALS NOT ALUNITE

Comments on development

  • NUMEROUS MINES WORKED FORMERLY FOR BASE AND PRECIOUS METALS BUT NO DEVELOPMENT OF ALUNITE. AFTER 1972, AERIAL SURVEY, BEDROCK SAMPLING, AND DRILLING. AS OF 1974, EARTH SCIENCES, INC., HELD FEDERAL POTASSIUM PROSPECTING PERMITS ON 6,813.11 ACRES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER 1913A; 1913B.

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, 1915, P. 361-364.

  • Deposit

    SIMONS, 1974 (MAP).

  • Deposit

    SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.

  • Deposit

    1897 DIREXPL MANY CO'S. METAL PROD.

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, 1913, 1915; SIMONS, 1974 (MAP).

  • Deposit

    1909 GEOLMAP F. C. SCHRADER PUB. REPTS.

  • Deposit

    1960 GEOLMAP F. S. SIMONS PUB. MAP

  • Deposit

    PROJECT 9350 - 01393 ALUNITE RESOURCES

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    SCHRADER, 1915

  • Reserve-Resource

    SAWYER AND OTHERS, 1992.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RHYOLITE AND ANDESITE REPLACED BY ORE.
Deposit SCHRADER DESCRIBES ALUNITE NEAR 3R MINE; SIMONS MAPPED EXTENSIVE ALUNITIZED ZONE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1975 Hall, Robert B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1994 Orris, Greta J. 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

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