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Sunset Mine

Plant in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Manganese, Silver
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10209926
MRDS ID M241131
MAS/MILS ID 0040030687
Record type Site
Current site name Sunset Mine
Alternate or previous names G. Helday
Related records 10046256

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.09036, 31.68733 (WGS84)
Elevation 1411
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tombstone(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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

Bureau of Land Management AZ BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 020 S 022 E 15 SW Arizona

Commodities

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

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -110.09036, 31.68733
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Plant type Leach

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Gabriel Helday
    Interest 100
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1987

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH S B 1973 ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 187 P 79

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 28-NOV-1990 Gosling U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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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.