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Belmont Mine

Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold, 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. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046335
MRDS ID M241311
Record type Site
Current site name Belmont Mine
Alternate or previous names North Belmont Shaft, South Belmont Incline and Mill Site, Belmont Lease
Related records 10113827

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.69623, 31.3682 (WGS84)
Elevation 1753
Relative position ABOUT 1.0 MILE SSW OF WASHINGTON CAMP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Duquesne(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 024S 016E 03 CENTER OF W2 OF SE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • ADJACENT ON WEST TO EMPIRE MINE; 1/4 MILE SOUTH OF HOLLAND MINE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Pyrometamorphosed Limestone

Analytical data

Result ORE VALUES AVERAGED 9% ZN, 3% CU, 3% PB, 6OZ./TON AG, MINOR AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.69623, 31.3682
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Mineral Deposits Of Washington-Duquesne Area Occupy A Limestone-Sediment Belt (2.5 Miles Long And 1.25 Miles Wide) Surrounded By Igneous Rocks
Type of structure Local
Structure description Limestone Containing Deposits Forms A Large, Irregular, And Massivelens

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES
    Strike N-S
    Dip 60 W
    Length 243.84M
    Width 30.48M
  • General form LENSES
    Dip 60 W

Controls for ore emplacement

  • N-S Trending Metamorphosed Mineralized Zone Along Fault Contact Between Crystalline Limestone And Intrusive Granodiorite On South

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE MOSTLY FOUND ON CONTACTS BETWEEN LIMESTONE AND GARNET; SOME OF SULFIDE ORE IS WELL-EMBEDDED IN QUARTZ

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1850
Discoverer Mexican Prospectors; Relocated By Thomas Yerkes In 1870'S
Year of first production 1932
Year of last production 1947

Mining district

District name Washington Camp District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Rosario Exploration Co.
    First year 1973

Comments on the workings information

  • OLD WORKINGS INCLUDED 150 FT BY 50 FT OPEN CUT, 45 FT DEEP INCLINED DRIFT, 200-FT SHAFT, EXTENSIVE STOPES, 200-FT TUNNEL, SEVERAL WINZES; SHAFT INCLINES 40 SW; BELMONT LEASE WORKINGS AS OF 1955 INCLUDED 600-FT TUNNEL, 200-FT TUNNEL, 50 FT RAISE CONNECTING 2 TUNNELS; 4 OLD SHAFTS ON BELMONT AND SILVER BILL (SOUTH BELMONT PROPERTIES

Comments on development

  • OWNERS AND OPERATORS INCLUDED BACON (1870'S-1905), DUQUESNE MININGAND REDUCTION CO., F.O. BOSTWICK (1930), BRACEY CURTIS ESTATE (1934), DE LA OSSA (1936), RIVERA AND WEAVER (1937), MCGREGOR (1937), BYRD (1946-47), NASH MINES (1955-1964), CARL SANDBERG AND FRED WILLIAMS, D.C. GILBERT, HUGO MILLER, JUAN SESTEAGA; PROPERTY COMPRISES ONE PATENTED CLAIM; PART OF NASH MINES BELMONT LEASE (BELMONT, SILVER BILL, SILVER JACK, AND WEDGE CLAIMS) IN 1955

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USBM FILES, BELMONT MINE

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA, BELMONT LEASE

  • Deposit

    BLM DISTRICT MINING SHEET 727

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 582, P. 340-341)

  • Deposit

    ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 76

  • Deposit

    ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH

  • Deposit

    USGS MAP I-762

  • Deposit

    LEHMAN NORMAN E., 1978, THE GEOLOGY AND PYROMETASOMATIC ORE DEPOSITS THE WASHINGTON CAMP-DUQUESNE DISTRICT, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; PHD. DISSERTATION, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, P. 126-143, MAPS

  • Deposit

    TENNEY, JAMES B., 1927-29, HISTORY OF MINING IN ARIZONA; ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, P. 293-300

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEE ALSO: SILVER BELL MINE (SOUTH BELMONT) ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit DEPOSIT LIES APPROXIMATELY CONFORMABLE WITH LIMESTONE, WHICH ON NORTH DIPS 60 W, AND ON SOUTH, CURVES TO EAST
Deposit Discovery Year: MID 1800'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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