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Pandora 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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048102
MRDS ID M800092
Record type Site
Current site name Pandora Mine
Related records 10137268

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.07152, 31.88068 (WGS84)
Relative position 2 1/2 MILES SSE OF TWIN BUTTES

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Twin Buttes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sells(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 Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 018S 012E 12 SE OF NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • CENTER OF SE 1/4 OF NE 1/4 SECTION 12 ASSUMED MILS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.07152, 31.88068
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • NEAR MAJOR LARAMIDE PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS, SIMILAR GEOLOGY

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1917
Year of last production 1917

Mining district

District name Pima District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner E. D. Sullivan

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT 189, P 133

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

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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