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Ox Hide Mine

Past Producer in Gila county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Reserves and resources
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046313
MRDS ID M241219
Record type Site
Current site name Ox Hide Mine
Alternate or previous names Upper Ox Hide, Lower Ox Hide, Schultze Mine, Schultze Group
Related records 10234187

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.92458, 33.38591 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341
Relative position 0.5 MILE SE OF NEEDLE MOUNTAIN SUMMIT, N BANK OF NEEDLE CREEK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gila(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Inspiration(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Globe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Salt(hydrologic unit)

Salt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Gila

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 001N 014E 34 W2 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 2.7 MILE SW OF MIAMI, SHAFT LOCATION BASED ON MAP IN PP 342. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MOST ORE IS LOW GRADE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Cuprite Ore
Malachite Ore
Tenorite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Pinal Schist;Schultze Granite
    Rock description Pinal Schist;Schultze Granite

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ns Curving To Wnw Fault Forms Needle Creek Valley
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faulting Is Mainly E-W In Mined Area

Ore body information

  • Thickness 60M
    Length 540M
    Width 540M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Disseminated In Schultze Granite, Some Also In Adjacent Schist, And Near Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1894
Year of first production 1929
Year of last production 1984
Production years 1968-1980

Mining district

District name Miami-Inspiration District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Cyprus Miami Mining Corp.
    First year 1988

Comments on the production information

  • IN 1981, THE PRODUCTION RATE WAS APPROXIMATELY 12, 500 ST/D OF SULFIDE ORE.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1981
    Total resources 12958000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.3 wt-pct Copper Major 1981

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL TUNNELS AND SHAFTS, ONE 200 FT LONG TUNNEL, ONE 100 FT DEEP SHAFT, AND SMALL OPEN CUTS PRIOR TO 1943. NOW TWO LARGE OPEN PITS.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED; DAVID L. KUCK, RALPH HENDERSON, ALMA, EVA, AND ED SCHULTZE, O.L. CROSS, AND INSPIRATION CONSOLIDATED MINING CO.. OPEN-PIT WORKING BEGAN IN 1968, 16 UNPATENTED CLAIMS, 1943 OPEN PIT OPERATIONS BEGAN IN 1967 AT TWO PITS. UPPER OXHIDE PIT WORK ENDED IN 1974, LOWER OXHIDE OPEN PIT STILL IN OPERATION, 1982, HEAP LEACHING FOR COPPER. CALLED SCHULTZE MINE 1929 TO 1962 WITH MINOR SPORADIC PRODUCTION AND SOME LEACHING IN 1961. CYPRUS ACQUIRED INSPIRATION CONSOLIDATED COPPER IN JULY, 1988.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS P.P. 342, 1962, PLATE 1.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    ADMR OXHIDE MINE FILE.

  • Deposit

    SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    SAWYER AND OTHERS, 1992.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PRODUCTION BEGAN ON A VEIN DEPOSIT, LATER WAS TURNED INTO 2 LARGE OPEN PITS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 Steinzig, Kathryn L. (Gest, Don E.) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-APR-1994 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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