Phoenix Mine

Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold
Sections on this page
  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 10109793
MRDS ID M241261
Record type Site
Current site name Phoenix Mine
Alternate or previous names Hay Property
Related records 10234422

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.69595, 31.4232 (WGS84)
Elevation 1615
Relative position 9 MILES SOUTH OF PATAGONIA

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 15 S2 OF S2 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 1.5 MILES SE OF AMERICAN PEAK, ADJOINING MOWRY MINE PROPERTY TO EAST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Lead Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Limestone Is Highly Sericitized, Brecciated And Stained With Mn And Fe; Feldspars Are Greatly Kaolinized And Altered To Epidote

Analytical data

Result ORE VALUES AVERAGED 13.9% PB, 1.5 OZ./TON AG, .16 OZ/TON AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Pyroxenite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.69595, 31.4232

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Croppings Of Manganese And Iron Oxides, Kaolin And Argentiferous Galena Extend Interruptedly Along Contact Fissure Of Mowry Fault For 1/2 Mile Or More
Type of structure Local
Structure description Deposits Formed By Same Intrusive Dike Of Quartz Monzonite That Uptilted Limestone Beds Containing The Mowry Deposits; Pyroxene Monzonite Similarly Uptilted, Creating Parallel Fractures Along Which Mineralization Occurred

Ore body information

  • General form STREAKS
    Strike N75E
    Dip 78N
    Length 609.6M
    Width 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • North, Or Hanging Wall Side, Of E-W Mowry Fault, As Fracture Fillings In Pyroxene Monzonite And As Contact Fissure Deposits Between Limestone And Monzonite

Comments on the geologic information

  • INTRUSION OF QUARTZ MONZONITE DIKE CREATED PARALLEL FRACTURES THROUGH WHICH LEAD SOLUTIONS REACHED THE SURFACE AND PRECIPITATED AS CARBONATES; WORKINGS LOCATED NEAR SECTION OF E-W MOWRY FAULT THAT HAS BEEN DISPLACED FROM SECTION OF FAULT ON MOWRY MINE PROPERTY BY THE N-S EAST END FAULT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1945

Mining district

District name Harshaw District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner George R. Hay
    First year 1942

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION DATA AVAILABLE

Comments on the workings information

  • NO UNDERGROUND WORKINGS; NUMEROUS OPEN CUTS AND SHALLOW SHAFTS EXPOSE OUTCROPS OF ORE ON SURFACE (APPROXIMATELY 15 OPEN CUTS)

Comments on development

  • CLAIMS LOCATED AS EXPLORATION PROSPECTS IN 1940'S; PROPERTY COMPRISES 5 UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM FILES, PHOENIX MINE

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA, PHOENIX MINE

  • Deposit

    SMITH, GEORGE E., 1956 THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MOWRY MINE AREA, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 44 PP.

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 582, P. 296-306

  • Deposit

    USGS MAP I-762 (1=48000)

  • Deposit

    PROUT, J.W., 1907, THE SILVER-LEAD DEPOSITS OF THE MOWRY MINE, MOWRY, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 18 PP.

  • Deposit

    BRINSMADE, R.B., 1907, LEAD-SILVER DEPOSITS OF MOWRY, ARIZONA; MINES AND MINERALS, VOL. 27, NO. 12, P. 529-531

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1940'S
Deposit EXTENSIVE DEPOSIT, APPROXIMATELY 300 BY 2000 FT., CONSISTS OF PARALLEL STREAKS OF ORE, FROM A FEW INCHES TO SEVERAL FT IN WIDTH

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1982 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Arizona resources

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