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Sacaton Mill

Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10283613
MAS/MILS ID 0040211058
Record type Site
Current site name Sacaton Mill
Alternate or previous names Asarco Mill At Sacaton

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -111.85242, 32.94729 (WGS84)
Elevation 419
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 West(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 005 S 005 E 33 C Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -111.85242, 32.94729
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1980

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS CASA GRANDE WEST QUAD

  • Deposit

    ADMR ASARCO ACTIVE MINES FILE

  • Deposit

    ADMR DIRECTORY OF ACTIVE MINES IN AZ 1980 P 4

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-FEB-84 ADMR U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.) — acquired by Asarco LLC, subsidiary of Grupo México (2009)
    American Smelting and Refining Co. Filed Chapter 11 in 2005; acquired out of bankruptcy by Grupo México in 2009.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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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.