Royal Mountain

Past Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10137737
MRDS ID M050168
MAS/MILS ID 0040190552
Record type Site
Current site name Royal Mountain
Alternate or previous names Unit, Az, Usbm Ofr Mla 11-94., Coronado Nf, Part 12, Santa Rita Mt
Related records 10039496

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.77708, 31.75153 (WGS84)
Elevation 1700
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Helvetia(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Huachuca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rillito(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 Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 019 S 015 E 26 SE Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Lead Secondary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -110.77708, 31.75153

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 FISSURE VEIN
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Date of Last Modification 940726

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Greaterville District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ARIZ BUR MINES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    F C SCHRADER, 1915, USGS BULL 582, P. 155.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-OCT-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.