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Commodore

Past Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, 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. 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 10231955
MRDS ID M000227
MAS/MILS ID 0040230049
Record type Site
Current site name Commodore
Alternate or previous names Commodore Mine, Coronado Nf Mla
Related records 10026782

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -111.25629, 31.40794 (WGS84)
Elevation 1158
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

Bartlett Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Atascosa Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio De La Concepcion(hydrologic unit)

Rio De La Concepcion(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(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 023 S 011 E 19 NWSW Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary
Silver Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -111.25629, 31.40794
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1890

Mining district

District name Oro Blanco

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Goodwin
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1976
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Sanders
    Year 1975

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL ORE PRODUCED; AVERAGED 32 OZ/ST AG, 0.1 OZ/ST AU, MINOR PB AND CU.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S.B., 1975, AZBM BULL. 191, P. 63.

  • Deposit

    SANTA CRUZ CO. RECORDER'S RECORDS

  • Deposit

    COE AND VAN LOO PRIVATE RECORDS

  • Deposit

    USBM STAFF, 1994, USBM OFR MLA XX-94, P. A28.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 08-AUG-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.

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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