American Boy

Occurrence in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
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. 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 10210516
MAS/MILS ID 0040210106
Record type Site
Current site name American Boy

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -111.63011, 32.82789 (WGS84)
Elevation 488
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Casa Grande Mountains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Casa Grande(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Santa Cruz(hydrologic unit)

Santa Cruz(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 007 S 007 E 09 N2NESW Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -111.63011, 32.82789

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Wessel Copper Mining And Milling Co
    Home office Missouri
    Year 1912

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS CASA GRANDE MTS QUAD

  • Deposit

    WEED,WALTER H THE COPPER HANDBOOK 1912-1913 P 963

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-DEC-96 ADMR U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Arizona resources

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