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Desert Lode Mine

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026855
MRDS ID M000543
Record type Site
Current site name Desert Lode Mine
Related records 10283753

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.95599, 32.04067 (WGS84)
Elevation 739
Relative position 10 MILES W OF COMOBABI

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ko Vaya(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver Bell Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Simon Wash(hydrologic unit)

Rio Sonoyta(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 016S 004E 17 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • CENTER SECTION 17 . PAPAGO INDIAN RESERVATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.95599, 32.04067
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSING

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1937
Year of last production 1937

Comments on the production information

  • A SMALL AMOUNT OF ORE WAS PRODUCED IN 1937 THAT RAN 0.7 OZ/TON AU AND 3 OZ/TON AG.

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW WORKINGS, TYPE UNKNOWN

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED M. HEDDERMAN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S. B., 1974 , INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 189 , P. 111

  • Production

    ABM BULLETIN 189 , P. 111 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) 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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