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Portage Lake & Bisbee Company Shaft Mining

Occurrence in Cochise 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026971
MRDS ID M001424
Record type Site
Current site name Portage Lake & Bisbee Company Shaft Mining
Alternate or previous names Portage Lake & Calumet Development Company
Related records 10258547

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.86454, 31.40181 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 3 MILES E OF DON LUIS, ARIZ.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bisbee NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Whitewater Draw(hydrologic unit)

Rio De Bavispe(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 23S 24E 25 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 12 CLAIMS (3 FRACTIONAL) COVERING 191 ACRES. PARTLY PATENTED.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Escabrosa
    Rock description Escabrosa

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.86454, 31.40181
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Warren District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Portage Lake And Bisbee Dev. Co.
    Home office Negaunee, Mi.
    First year 1943

Comments on the production information

  • NONE TO 1/1943. UNDERGROUND. 192 ACRES IN PAT & LODE CLAIMS

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO-COMPARTMENT SHAFT 302 FEET DEEP

Comments on development

  • PORTAGE LAKE AND CALUMET DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ATTEMPTED TO P SINK AN EXPLORATION SHAFT BEFORE 1903 BUT SUSPENDED SINKING AT 302 FT. DEPTH DUE TO INABILITY TO HANDLE WATER. REORGANIZED APRIL, 1903 AS PORTAGE LAKE AND BISBEE MINING COMPANY. EXTENSIVE DIAMOND DRILLING 1903 TO 1904 CUT AN EXTENSIVE LEACHED DEPOSIT BUT NO WORKABLE ORE BODIES. NO WORK DONE SINCE 1904.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM FILES

  • Deposit

    COPPER HANDBOOK VOLUME 16

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey

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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