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Tres Metals Mine

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048110
MRDS ID M800104
Record type Site
Current site name Tres Metals Mine
Related records 10234401

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.26961, 32.22205 (WGS84)
Elevation 747
Relative position ON WEST SLOPE OF SIERRA BLANCA, 42 MILES SE OF AJO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wahak Hotrontk(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ajo(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ajo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Simon Wash(hydrologic unit)

Rio Sonoyta(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 014S 001E 9 E OF CENTER Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • MILS LOCATION, MINE SHOWN ON MAP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NEARBY BLACK PRINCE MINE CONTAINS GALENA, MALACHITE, AZURITE, SILVER.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.26961, 32.22205
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Fissure Or Fault Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINE NOT DESCRIBED IN ABGMT 189, DESCRIPTION OF AREA IS FROM THAT OF BLACK PRINCE MINE, M030536

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 Brownell District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Keith Knight

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT 189, P. 156

  • 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

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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