Windmill Group

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodity Uranium
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10112560
MAS/MILS ID 0040030703
Record type Site
Current site name Windmill Group
Alternate or previous names Coronado Nf Whetstone Unit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.38847, 31.88513 (WGS84)
Elevation 1520
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mescal(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Huachuca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper San Pedro(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(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 Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 018 S 019 E 10 NE Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -110.38847, 31.88513

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1950
Year of first production 1957

Mining district

District name Whetstone

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Bob Smith And Clifford Royston
    Home office California
    Year 1955

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    US AEC PRELIM RECON FOR URANIUM IN APACE AND COCHISE COUNT

  • Deposit

    IES ARIZ 1950 TO 1970 US AEC 1970 P57 (RME-154)

  • Deposit

    STAAZ, M. H., 1982, UNPUB. ASSESSMENT OF URANIUM PROSPECTS

  • Deposit

    IN WHETSTONE MTNS RARE II STUDY, P. 1.

  • Deposit

    WRUKE, C. T. ET AL, 1983, USGS MFS MAP MF-1614-A 1:48000

  • Deposit

    AND ACCOMPANYING PAMPHLET, P. 6.

  • Deposit

    CHATMAN, M. L., 1994, USBM OFR MLA 2-94, P. 20-1.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCINTILLOMETER READINGS 100-450 CPS, BACKGROUND IS 50 CPS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 20-JAN-1994 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.