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Mar Garita Mine

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold
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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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109822
MRDS ID M800084
Record type Site
Current site name Mar Garita Mine
Related records 10113795

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.30319, 31.91179 (WGS84)
Relative position ONE MILE WEST OF STEVENS MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stevens Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Brawley Wash(hydrologic unit)

Santa Cruz(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle 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 Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 017S 010E 35 NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • NO PROSPECT ON MAP, SO CENTER OF NE 1/4 SECTION 35 ASSUMED; MILS. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.30319, 31.91179
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sedimentary & Volcanic Formations Intruded In Mesozoic And Laramide

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • ABGMT 189 DOES NOT DESCRIBE THIS MINE SPECIFICALLY

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1950
Year of last production 1950

Mining district

District name Papago District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner C. S. Ortiz

Comments on development

  • 38 TONS AT APPROX. 1.5 % CU, .5 OZ AG/T, AND .03 OZ AU/T

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT 189, P. 131

  • Deposit

    ABGMT - USBM FILE DATA

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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