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Dura Mine

Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver, Antimony, Molybdenum
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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. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046334
MRDS ID M241293
Record type Site
Current site name Dura Mine
Alternate or previous names International, Old Contest
Related records 10283466

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.91401, 31.39292 (WGS84)
Elevation 1231
Relative position 0.7 MILES SE OF MT. BENEDICT (ELV. 4565)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rio Rico(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)

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 014E 33 NE OF NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • JUST W OF THE UNCLE SAM MINE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Antimony Critical Secondary
Molybdenum Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor

Analytical data

Result 100 TONS OF ORE WITH HIGH VALUES OF AU, PB AND AG.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Quartz Monzonite Of Mount Benedict
    Rock description Quartz Monzonite Of Mount Benedict
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.91401, 31.39292
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Numerous Nw Trending (Aplite) Dikes; Major Fault Trending N-S
Type of structure Local
Structure description Pyritized Lamprophyric Dikes

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike WNW
    Dip STEEPLY TON
    Width 0.61M
  • General form TABULAR
    Dip STEEPLY TON

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lensing Veins In Irregular Shear Zone; Irregular Pockets And Impregnations Of Ore

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Nogales District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. C. Gleason
    First year 1915

Comments on the production information

  • WORKED BY MEXICANS AS EARLY AS THE 1840'S AND INTERMITTENTLY UP TO 1900'S; 5 % OF ORE VALUE IS FREE GOLD, REST IS CHIEFLY LEAD AND SILVER: SOME ORE SHIPPED CARRIED 60% LEAD.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 82.3M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHAFTS, A 270-FT TUNNEL, AND A 40-FT WINZE AND STOPES

Comments on development

  • COMPRISED OF 3 CLAIMS: DURA, XXX, AND YANKEE GIRL; FORMER OWNER B. LITCHLITER (PRIOR TO 1915); PAST OPERATORS INCLUDE: B. LITCHLITER, J.GLEASON.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM FILE DATA - CLUSTER #30 - DURA MINE GROUP

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 582, P. 350-351

  • Deposit

    ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 60

  • Deposit

    USGS MAP I-762

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FAULT FISSURE VEIN CRUDELY BANDED WITH QUARTZ STRINGERS; SAME VEIN AS AT THE UNCLE SAM MINE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 Laraba, Peter (Calder, Susan) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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