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Apache Pass Mines

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046217
MRDS ID M241072
Record type Site
Current site name Apache Pass Mines
Alternate or previous names Gold Belle, Helen Done, Quillan Groups, Lula Gold Nugget, New Year
Related records 10112749

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.46843, 32.14873 (WGS84)
Elevation 1573
Relative position APPROX 15 MI NE OF DOS CABEZAS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bowie Mountain North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Willcox(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Simon(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

Bureau of Land Management AZ BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 015S 028E 04,09,10,11 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4 SEC 4, NE 1/4 SEC 9, N 1/2 SEC 10 NE 1/4 SEC 11. UTM EST

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.46843, 32.14873
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Veins

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Apache Pass District, Teviston District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Apache Pass Gold Mining Co.
  • Type Operator
    Owner Arizona Gold Mining Co.
  • Type Operator
    Owner Cochise Bowie Mining Co.
  • Type Operator
    Owner Helen Dome Mining Co.
  • Type Operator
    Owner Gold Nugget Mining Co.

Comments on the production information

  • ABOUT 600 TONS OF ORE PRODUCED INTERMITTENTLY FROM 1870'S TO 1973

Comments on the workings information

  • NUMEROUS SCATTERED PITS SHAFTS AND ADITS.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS ALSO INCLUDED T.K. MITCHELL, 1915-16, AND CHESTER HIGGINS, 1941

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S B, 1973, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 187, P 71.

  • Deposit

    DREWES, HARALD, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNPUBLISHED DATA, 1977-1980.

  • Production

    KEITH, 1973, ARIZ BUR OF MINES BULL 187.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IN IRREGULAR QUARTZ-FILLED FISSURE VEINS CUTTING GRANITIC ROCK.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Zigler, Jan L. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1981 Gest, Don E. 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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