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Evening Star Mine

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10210062
MRDS ID m001779
MAS/MILS ID 0040030272
Record type Site
Current site name Evening Star Mine
Alternate or previous names Houston Claims, Coronado Nf Whetstone Unit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.37097, 31.83733 (WGS84)
Elevation 1590
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

McGrew Spring(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 26 SE Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -110.37097, 31.83733
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1917

Mining district

District name Whetstone

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner J. Christie
    Year 1941

Comments on the workings information

  • DEEP SHAFT POSES HUMAN HAZARD. THE PROPERTY OVERLAPS WITH AND HAS BEEN CONFUSED WITH THE CHADWICK MINE (0040030254).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S. B. 1973, ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 187, P. 91.

  • Deposit

    CHATMAN, M. L., 1994, USBM MLA 2-94, P. 17-8.

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E. D., 1941, AZBGMT BULL 148, P. 46.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 13-JAN-94 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.

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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.