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Buzzard's Shadow Mine

Producer in Greenlee county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Manganese
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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. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088879
MRDS ID M800157
Record type Site
Current site name Buzzard's Shadow Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.40732, 33.07177 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 2.5 MILES WEST OF MORENCI., Used Usgs Professional Paper 43 (1905); At Head Of Unnamed Gulch

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copperplate Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-San Carlos Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

Bureau of Land Management AZ BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Greenlee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S 029E 19 NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 0.5 MILES NW OF MOUTH OF PINKARD GULCH AT HEAD OF SMALL GULCH DRAINING DIRECTLY INTO EAGLE CREEK; NEXT GULCH NORTH OF GOLD GULCH ON EAST SIDE OF EAGLE CREEK. INFO FROM LAND.ST :01; 49 ? (1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Epidote Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Orthoclase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Distinct Contact Metamorphic Zone Between Limestones And Porphyry Associated With A Hardening Of Sedimentary Layers And Substantial Development Of Epidote And Magnetite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Morenci Granite Porphyry;Coronado Quartzite
    Rock description Morenci Granite Porphyry;Coronado Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 55.2
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Longfellow Limestone;Morenci Shale
    Rock description Longfellow Limestone;Morenci Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.40732, 33.07177
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne Trending Granite Porphyry Dikes; Alternating Sandstone And Shale Beds Form Irregular Areas Almost Entirely Surrounded By Morenci Granite Porphyry
Type of structure Local
Structure description South Of Zone Between Coronado Ridge And Gold Gulch Fault Blocks

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, IRREGULAR
    Strike EW
    Dip VERTICAL
    Width 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ene Trending Fissure

Comments on the geologic information

  • LONGFELLOW LIMESTONES ARE EXTENSIVELY EXPOSED IN THIS REGION. MORENCI PORPHYRY IS NOT MUCH ALTERRED BUT IS GREATLY DISINTEGRATED. PRINCIPAL REGIONAL PORPHYRITIC INTRUSIONS PARALLEL PLANES OF SEDIMENTATION WHICH DIP 10-30 SW. REGIONAL FAULTING PRIOR TO INTRUSION AND MINERALIZATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1901
Discoverer Home Copper Co
Year of first production 1904
Year of last production 1915

Mining district

District name Copper Mountain District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner D. M. Cansler
    First year 1941

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHAFTS, TUNNELS, STOPES, DRIFTS; FREE MILLING GOLD ORE ON SURFACE.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED HOME COPPER CO, JOHN C. MOLDER, NEW YORK AND ARIZONA GOLD AND COPPER CO, G.I. PACE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 43 (1905).

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    STEVENS, H.J., 1911, THE COPPER HANDBOOK, V. X, P. 1293-1294, NEW YORK-ARIZONA GOLD AND COPPER CO.

  • Deposit

    STEVENS, H.J., 1912-1913, THE COPPER HANDBOOK V. XI, P. 444, HOME COPPER CO.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WELL-DEFINED FISSURE VEIN LIES BETWEEN CRUSHED LIMESTONE STAINED BY MANGANESE IN THE HANGING WALL AND PORPHYRY IN THE FOOT WALL.
Deposit 12 CLAIMS PATENTED BY HOME COPPER CO (1901). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-81 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 22-MAY-95 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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