Providencia Claim

Occurrence in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037103
MRDS ID M030403
Record type Site
Current site name Providencia Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.76512, 31.3882 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position 10 MI NNE OF NOGALES, 5 MI W OF WASHINGTON, 5 MI N OF MEXICO.

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 023S 015E 36,35 CENTER OF N2 (36) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR GOLDEN ROSE & BUENA VISTA MINES. IN PROVIDENCIA CANYON, 1/2 MI N OF KING MINE. INFO FROM LAND.ST :01, 41? (1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Molybdenum Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.76512, 31.3882

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description E-W And Ne Trending Quartz Veins And Associated Bands Of Crushed Mineralized Rock In Fault Fissures Cutting Diorite And Quartz Monzonite
Type of structure Local
Structure description Quartz Monzonite Is Locally Intruded By Granite Porphyry And Underlain By Diorite

Ore body information

  • Depth to bottom 243.84M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Somewhat Sheared Quartz Monzonite Is Impregnated With Evenly Disseminated Small Crystals, Masses, And Grains Of Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, And Trace Amounts Of Molybdenite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Patagonia District

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Coronado National Forest

Comments on development

  • 1 PATENTED CLAIM.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 1 SQUARE MILE AREA
Deposit THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M030403 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENU M 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-APR-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

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