| Deposit ID | 10102403 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M000429 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Tres De Mayo Mine Group |
| Alternate or previous names | Peck, La Palma, Palmetto, Robert E. Bob Lee, Hassayampa, Hollywood, Union |
| Related records | 10113534 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -110.80207, 31.44597 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1341 |
| Relative position | ABOUT 10 MI NE OF PATAGOMA; 2 MI NE OF NOGALES INTERNATIONAL AIRPO RT |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Santa Cruz(county)
Arizona(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Cumero Canyon(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Arizona | Santa Cruz |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gila and Salt River | 023S | 015E | 03,10 | SW OF SW (03); N2 (10) | Arizona |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Silver | Primary |
| Lead | Primary |
| Copper | Secondary |
| Gold | Secondary |
| Zinc Critical | Tertiary |
| Manganese Critical | Tertiary |
| Molybdenum | Tertiary |
| Vanadium Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Argentite | Ore |
| Cerargyrite | Ore |
| Chalcopyrite | Ore |
| Gold | Ore |
| Malachite | Ore |
| Sphalerite | Ore |
| Wulfenite | Ore |
| Psilomelane | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite | ||||
| Rock unit name | Comoro Canyon Granite | ||||
| Rock description | Comoro Canyon Granite | ||||
| |||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite |
| (1) | -110.80207, 31.44597 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Deposits Occur In Quartz Fissure Veins, Near Or Adjacent To Diorite Intrusions Which Form Small Disconnected Sheets And Dikes |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure description | Ne Fracture Zone; Major Fault Passes Through Area |
| General form | LENSES, TABULAR, IRREGULAR, BANDS AND PODS |
|---|---|
| Strike | N80W |
| Dip | STEEP TO S |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1880 |
| Discoverer | A.J. Stockton And Associates |
| Year of first production | 1909 |
| Year of last production | 1942 |
| District name | Palmetto District |
|---|
| Ownership category | National Forest |
|---|---|
| Area name | Coronado National Forest |
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | General Development And Mining Co. Tres De Mayo Mine); Frank Otero And Rupert Beyerle |
| First year | 1958 |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Arthur Peck And Frank Otero |
| First year | 1975 |
| Year | 1942 | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1910-1942 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Material | ORE | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Accurate | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Cp_Grade: ^70 Oz/T Ag, 25% Pb, Minor Cu & Au | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Overall depth | 165.2M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M000429 | |
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0040230388 |
KEITH, 1975, ABM BULL 191
SCHRADER, 1915, USGS BULL 582
MOGER, 1969, MS THESIS, UNIV OF AZ
SIMONS, 1974, USGS MAP I-762
ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA
USBM FILES, TRES DE MAYO MINE GROUP
ADMR FILE DATA, TRES DE MAYO MINE
ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, TRES DE MAYO PROPERTY
ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH
CIMRI
KEITH, 1975
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | RICH CERARGYRITE POCKETS. LENSES OF GALENA IN A QUARTZ-PSILOMELAN E-GOUGE GANGUE IN FISSURE ZONE VEINS. NE STRIKING FRACTURES CONTAIN WE AK OXIDIZED SULFIDE MINERALIZATION. DEPOSITS OCCUR MAINLY IN 2 VEINS A BOUT 300 FT APART; 4 FT WIDE MN VEIN ALSO OCCURS ON PROPERTY; 20 FT WI DE FAULT ZONE THAT STRIKES N-S & DIPS STEEPLY W INTERSECTS TRES DE MAY O VEIN ABOUT 600 FT NW OF TRES DE MAYO SHAFT; BETWEEN FAULT AND VEIN A RE NUMEROUS MINOR FISSURES STRIKING N30-65W |
| Deposit | THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M000429 WITH RE CORD M030394 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-MAY-1983 | Peterson, Jocelyn A. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-MAY-1982 | Calder, Susan R. | Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology |
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