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Guajolote Mine

Past Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold
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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 10048329
MRDS ID M899910
Record type Site
Current site name Guajolote Mine
Alternate or previous names Quajolote, Bacon, Gualota, Four Metals Group
Related records 10161869

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.73761, 31.40931 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position .6 MILES NORTH OF RED HILL.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Harshaw(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 023S 016E 20 SE OF SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • AT GUAJOLOTE FLAT IN CORONADO NATIONAL FOREST; ABOUT 1.0 MILE SE OF PAYMASTER MINE. INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Pyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Granodiorite Is Highly Shattered, Sheeted, And Crushed; Strong Potassic Alteration

Analytical data

Result ORE VALUES AVERAGED 2% CU, 3 OZ/T AG, 0.2 OZ/T AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 58
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.73761, 31.40931
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description E-W And Ne-Trending Quartz Veins And Associated Bands Of Crushed Mineralized Rock In Fault Fissures Cutting Diorite And Quartz Monzonite
Type of structure Local
Structure description Located Near Nw-Trending Inferred Guajolote Fault; Fault Shear Zone Is 200 Ft Wide

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Vein Cutting Granodiorite

Comments on the geologic information

  • SOURCE OR MINERALIZATION BELIEVED TO BE FROM CENTRAL PORTION OF PORPHYRITIC GRANODIORITE INTRUDING GUAJOLOTE FLAT. DEPOSITS IN REGION OCCUR IN FORM OF SUBORDINATE VEINS LENSES, STRINGERS, AND SEAMS IN FRACTURES, FISSURES, JOINTS, AND SHEETING PLANES IN ROCK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1937
Year of last production 1941

Mining district

District name Patagonia District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Coronado National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Bacon Investment Co.
    First year 1938
  • Type Owner
    Owner Joe C. Bacon
    First year 1941

Comments on the workings information

  • 1 SHAFT

Comments on development

  • CLAIM INCORPORATED INTO FOUR METALS GROUP OF 33 UNPATENTED CLAIMS; SPORADIC PRODUCTION IN LATE 1930'S AND 1940'S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION DATA FILE.

  • Deposit

    USBM FILE DATA-CLUSTER #22, GUAJOLOTE MINE.

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S.B., 1975, ABM BULL. 191, P. 80.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, GUAJOLOTE MINE.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH.

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., 1915, USGS BULL. 582, P. 317-320 (FOUR METALS MINE).

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA, FOUR METALS MINE.

  • Deposit

    SIMONS, F.S., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF THE NOGALES AND LOCHIEL QUADRANGLES, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA: USGS MAP I-762 (1:48000).

  • Deposit

    GRAYBEAL, F.T., 1972, THE PARTITION OF TRACE ELEMENTS AMONG COEXISTING MINERALS IN SOME LARAMIDE INTRUSIVE ROCKS IN ARIZONA: PHD. DISSERTATION, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, P. 36-43.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEE ALSO: FOUR METALS MINE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, AND COPPER CARBONATES OCCUR NEAR SURFACE IN A BANDED QUARTZ VEIN.

Reporter information

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

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