Ray District

Past Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Talc-Soapstone, Vanadium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000190
MRDS ID D000088
Record type District
Current site name Ray District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.0174, 33.15009 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Teapot Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(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 Pinal

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary
Molybdenum Secondary
Talc-Soapstone Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.0174, 33.15009

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both

Mining district

District name RAY DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FISCHER, R. P., VANADIUM FILES.

  • Deposit

    USGS MAP GQ-1021.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., 1918, THE MINES HANDBOOK, P. 529.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPS AND OTHERS, 1974, ECON. GEOL., V. 69, P. 1237-1250.

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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