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Big Lode Mine

Past Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Gold
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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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039544
MRDS ID M050251
Record type Site
Current site name Big Lode Mine
Alternate or previous names Silver Top
Related records 10162057

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.23263, 31.45457 (WGS84)
Elevation 1250

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ruby(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Atascosa Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio De La Concepcion(hydrologic unit)

Rio De La Concepcion(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(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 011E 05 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite
    Rock unit name Ruby Diorite
    Rock description Ruby Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Oro Blanco Formation;Montana Peak Formation
    Rock description Oro Blanco Formation;Montana Peak Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.23263, 31.45457
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Nw- And Ne-Trending Fault Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • NEAR CONTACT OF MONTANA PEAK FORMATION WITH RUBY DIORITE AND ORO BLANCO FORMATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Oro Blanco District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KNIGHT, L.H., 1970, ORO BLANCO DIST: UNIV. ARIZ. PH.D. THESIS

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MAP SHOWS MINE IN TMP2 (K1 ABOVE) BUT NEAR CONTACT WITH ORO BLANCO FM SANDSTONE (CRETACEOUS) ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1972 Johnson, Maureen G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1982 Laraba, Peter (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.

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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