Tenstrike

Past Producer in Graham county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silica, Silver, Vanadium
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 10258669
MRDS ID M050151
MAS/MILS ID 0040090336
Record type Site
Current site name Tenstrike
Alternate or previous names Aravaipa Leasing Co, Lone Pine Lead, Dempsey, Cassidy and Rubal, Stone and Dempsey, Klondyke Mining Co, Aravaipa Patented Claim M S 1783
Related records 10039485

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.32537, 32.9059 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Graham(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cobre Grande Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mammoth(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower 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 Graham

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 006 S 020 E 17 C S2 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Lead Primary
Silica Tertiary
Silver Secondary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

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

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Mixed

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner James Quinn
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1925
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner J. F. Rydbom
    Year 1964

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS COBRE GRANDE MTN QUAD

  • Deposit

    USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 461 GEOLOGY OF THE KLONDYKE QUAD

  • Deposit

    1964 P 146

  • Deposit

    ROSS,CLYDE P.USGS BULL 763 1925 P 88

  • Deposit

    ADMR TENSTRIKE MINE FILE

  • Deposit

    AZBM BULL 156 AZ ZINC AND LEAD DEPOSITS PART 1 1950 P 63

  • Deposit

    FLAGG A.L.VANADIUM REPORTS 2 1942 P 4

  • Deposit

    ADMR U FILE

  • Deposit

    ELEVATORSKI,E.A.AZ INDUSTRIAL MINERALS ADMR 1978 P 34

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-NOV-83 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.