Mendosa Mine

Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10109881
MRDS ID M899879
Record type Site
Current site name Mendosa Mine
Alternate or previous names Lucky Strike

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.98486, 33.1012 (WGS84)
Elevation 610
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 0.5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POINT WHERE MINERAL CREEK ENTERS GILA RIVER, Utm Measured To Shaft In Assumed Area Of Mine, According To Usbm Mils

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kearny(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Globe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S 013E 11 N2 OF E2 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF GILA RIVER ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Ruin Granite
    Rock description Ruin Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.98486, 33.1012

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Etert Rhyolitic Intrusives In Area

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ne To Ene Trending Veins In Ruin Granite

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION AND VEINING PROBABLY RELATED TO PALEOCENE RHYOLITIC INTRUSIVE EPISODE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1934
Year of last production 1940

Mining district

District name Riverside District

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Joe Mendoza
    First year 1940

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 SHAFTS AND TUNNELS TOTALING AROUNG 1000 FT

Comments on development

  • PREVIOUS OPERATORS INCLUDED J. HENDERSON (1934) AND M.J.- RACKSTEIN (1935)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USGS GQ-1188

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-82 Roth, Frances A. (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.

Authoritative Arizona resources

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