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Centurion Area Small Mines

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Tungsten, 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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10104052
MRDS ID M241028
Record type Site
Current site name Centurion Area Small Mines
Alternate or previous names Mt Allen, Higgens Estate

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.04733, 32.05179 (WGS84)
Elevation 1455
Relative position APPROX 4 1/2 MI SE OF JOHNSON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dragoon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Willcox Playa(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 016S 022E 12,13 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Fluorite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 53
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 53

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.04733, 32.05179
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE IN QUARTZ VEINS, LIMESTONE INCLUSIONS, AND CONTACT BRECCIA IN ALTERED QUARTZ MONZONITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cochise District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • A SMALL AMOUNT OF TUNGSTEN ORE PRODUCED IN THE EARLY 1900'S AND ABOUT 8 TONS OF COPPER-SILVER ORE IN 1949.

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S B, 1973, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 187, P 56.

  • Deposit

    LIVINGSTON, MAUGER, BENNETT, AND LAUGHLIN, 1967, JGR, V. 72, P. 1361-1375

  • Production

    KEITH, 1973, ARIZ BUR OF MINES BULL 187.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IN QUARTZ VEINS, LIMESTONE INCLUSIONS, AND CONTACT BRECCIA IN ALTERED QUARTZ MONZONITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Zigler, Jan L. U.S. Geological Survey

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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