Santa Rita

Past Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Production statistics
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10186702
MAS/MILS ID 0040230351
Record type Site
Current site name Santa Rita
Alternate or previous names Good Luck Mine, Unit, Az, Usbm Ofr Mla 11-94., Coronado Nf, Part 12, Santa Rita Mt

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.92878, 31.69733 (WGS84)
Elevation 1500
Location accuracy 100(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 Hopkins(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)

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 17 N2NE Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Secondary
Gold Primary
Lead Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Early Tertiary to Late Cretaceous granitic rocks

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 SHEAR ZONE
    Date of Last Modification 940802

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1900

Mining district

District name Tyndall

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Patagonia Mines And Dev Co; Ewing; Campbell; Davis
    Year 1914
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Wighard
    Year 1914

Production statistics

  • Year 1908
    Description 28 Oz/T Au, 13 Oz/T Ag, 16% Pb 384 Tons
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Lead Lead 16wt-pct
    Silver Silver 411g/mt
    Gold Gold 885g/mt

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AZBM CARD FILE SANTA CRUZ CTY

  • Deposit

    USBM FIELD NOTES PB35

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER F C USGS BULL 582 P184-185

  • Deposit

    KEITH S B 1975 AZBM BULL 191 P 85

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.