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Copper Hill Mine

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver
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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. Alteration
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048087
MRDS ID M800070
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Hill Mine
Related records 10283609

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.53318, 32.34261 (WGS84)
Relative position ONE MILE ESE OF PIETY HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Piety Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Pedro(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 012S 018E 32 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • CENTER OF SECTION 32 ASSUMED, NO PROSPECTS SHOWN MILS LOCATION ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.53318, 32.34261
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • WEAK MINERALIZATION, MOSTLY OXIDIZED, IN FRACTURE ZONES ALONG FAULTS. UNKNOWN WHICH ROCK TYPE IS HOST FOR THIS SPECIFIC DEPOSIT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1942
Year of last production 1942

Mining district

District name Redington District

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. W. Nicholas J. A. Jordan

Comments on the production information

  • 20 TONS PRODUCED UP TO APRIL 1982

Comments on the workings information

  • UNDERGROUND ASSUMED, SMALL SHAFTS KNOWN THROUGHOUT DISTRICT

Comments on development

  • 20 TONS, 0.9% CU ORE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT 189, P. 141

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SANGO AND COBRE MINES ARE NEARBY, HAVE SIMILAR DEPOSITS WITH SIMILAR VERY SMALL PRODUCTION, AND ARE NOT LOCATABLE IN LITERATURE. KORN KOBALSO IN DISTRICT MINERALIZATION HERE MAY INVOLVE PEGMATITE DIKES (50-45 M.Y.) AS SEEN NEAR KORN KOB. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Gest, Don E. 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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