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Morning Star Mine

Past 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 10104146
MRDS ID M800089
Record type Site
Current site name Morning Star Mine
Alternate or previous names Crescent Mine
Related records 10283500

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.68767, 32.20483 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.5 MILE N OF GUNSIGHT PEAK SUMMIT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gunsight(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ajo(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ajo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Cristobal Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

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 004W 16 CENTER Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • ASSUME CENTER OF SECTION 16 MANY PROSPECTS AND ADITS, MILS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GUNSIGHT MINE NEARBY CONTAINS COPPER OXIDES.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Partly Oxidized

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along Fissure Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • NOT MENTIONED IN ABGMT 189, GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF GUNSIGHT MINE USED, LOCATED IN SAME 1/4 SECTION, M002260

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1966
Year of last production 1966

Mining district

District name Gunsight District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Harm, F. H.

Comments on development

  • 75 TONS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT 189, P. 122.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT - USBM FILE DATA.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Gest, Don E. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

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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