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Little Shot Mine

Past Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead
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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. 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 10162343
MAS/MILS ID 0040230264
Record type Site
Current site name Little Shot Mine
Alternate or previous names Iron Cliff Prospect ?, Velvet, Coronado Nf, Part 12, Santa Rita Mt, Unit, Az, Usbm Ofr Mla 11-94.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.86128, 31.69683 (WGS84)
Elevation 2110
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Wrightson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Huachuca(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)

Mt. Wrightson Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness 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 020 S 014 E 13 SENWNE Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -110.86128, 31.69683
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 FISSURE VEIN
    Type of Orebody #2 SHEAR ZONE
    Date of Last Modification 940801

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Old Baldy

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS MT WRIGHTSON QUAD

  • Deposit

    AZBM CARD FILE SANTA CRUZ CTY

  • Deposit

    USBM FIELD NOTES

  • Deposit

    F C SCHRADER, 1915, USGS BULL 582, P. 177.

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.

External references

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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