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Marguette & Arizona Mine

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodity Manganese
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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 10046228
MRDS ID M241090
Record type Site
Current site name Marguette & Arizona Mine
Related records 10137240

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.79482, 31.35904 (WGS84)
Elevation 1430
Relative position APPROX. 1 1/2 MI. NW OF CHRISTIANSEN RANCH.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bisbee SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Whitewater Draw(hydrologic unit)

Rio De Bavispe(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 024S 025E 10 NW OF SE OF NW Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Rock unit name Glance Conglomerate
    Rock description Glance Conglomerate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.79482, 31.35904
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N25E
    Dip 80W
    Thickness 2.44M
    Length 76.2M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • SMALL MANGANESE NODULES ARE WIDESPREAD IN THE CONGLOMERATE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Gold Hill District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Marguette And Arizona Copper Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Shattuck Family And Earnest Beyer
    First year 1961

Comments on the production information

  • TWO CARLOADS OF SORTED MANGANESE OXIDES IN 1917-1918 AND A FEW TRUCK LOADS IN 1954.

Comments on the workings information

  • LARGEST OPEN CUT IS ABOUT 80 FT LONG, 6 TO 8 FT WIDE, AND 4 TO 8 FT DEEP, MUCH OF THE MATERIAL REMOVED WAS REJECTED AS WASTE. ALSO THERE ARE TWO SHALLOW CUTS ABOUT 40 FT APART, ONE IS 15 FT LONG, THE OTHER IS ABOUT 30 FT LONG

Comments on development

  • GROUP OF MORE THAN 30 PATENTED CLAIMS, MOST MANGANESE ORE WAS FOUND ON TWO CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S.B., 1973, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 187, P. 88.

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, 1961, USBM IC 7990, P. 22-23

  • Production

    KEITH, 1973, ARIZ. BUR. OF MINES BULL. 187.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IN STRINGERS, VEINLETS, AND SMALL IRREGULAR BUNCHES ALONG FISSURE ZONES IN CONGLOMERATE. ANOTHER DEPOSIT STRIKES N15W AND DIPS STEEPLY WESTWARD, IT IS EXPOSED FOR A LENGTH OF 80 FT OR MORE, AND THE MINERALIZED INTERVALS RANGE FROM 2 TO 4 FT IN WIDTH. PSILOMELANE OCCURS IN NARROW STRINGERS AND SMALL, IRREGULAR BUNCHES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Zigler, Jan L. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Laraba, Peter (Gest, Don E.) U.S. Geological Survey

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