Thunder and Standard Mine Group

Occurrence in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum
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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037095
MRDS ID M030390
Record type Site
Current site name Thunder and Standard Mine Group
Alternate or previous names Standard Prospect, Thunder Mine
Related records 10113352, 10259023

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.74929, 31.44486 (WGS84)
Elevation 1798
Relative position 0.5 MI W OF AMERICAN PEAK IN EXTREME HEAD OF ALUM GULCH; 3 MI SW O F HARSHAW.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Harshaw(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 023S 016E 07 SE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 2/3 MI S OF SUNNYSIDE MINE. INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Molybdenum Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicified; Volcanic Rocks Highly Altered To Quartz, Aericite, Alunite, And Kaolinite

Analytical data

Result ORE SAID TO AVERAGE 0.6% CU, 2 OZ/T AG, 40 O/T AU (1915)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Mt. Wrightson Formation, Rhyolite And Latite Flows And Tuffs And Tu Ffaceous Sandstone
    Rock description Mt. Wrightson Formation, Rhyolite And Latite Flows And Tuffs And Tu Ffaceous Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.74929, 31.44486

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw Shear Zones, Ene System Of Faults And Joints With Flat Southerly Dip

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Depth to top 6.1M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Harshaw District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Coronado National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • NO RECORDS OF PRODUCTION

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 24.99M

Comments on the workings information

  • 82 FT TUNNEL ON THE THUNDER GROUP OF CLAIMS; 40 FT SHAFT ON THE STANDARD GROUP OF CLAIMS.

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY COMPRIS THE THUNDER GROUP OF 8 CLAIMS AND, ADJACENT TO THE NORTH, THE STANDARD GROUP OF 14 CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, 1915, USGS BULL 582.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    SIMONS, 1974, USGS MAP I-762.

  • Deposit

    USBM FILES; THUNDER MINE, STANDARD PROSPECT.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COPPER MINERALS ARE WIDELY DISSEMINATED IN GRANITE PORPHYRY AND CONCENTRATED ALONG SHEAR ZONES.
Deposit THIS REPORWAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M030390 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1982 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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