Little San Domingo Mine

Occurrence in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum, Copper, Gold
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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048180
MRDS ID M800237
Record type Site
Current site name Little San Domingo Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.56268, 33.94339 (WGS84)
Elevation 890
Relative position 0.5 MI E OF LITTLE SAN DOMINGO WASH; 0.75 MI S OF YAVAPAI CO. LINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Picacho(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Phoenix North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Agua Fria(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower 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 Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 007N 003W 15,22 SW (15) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1964

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Secondary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Malachite Ore
Powellite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Diopside Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicified

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.56268, 33.94339

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 140.21M
    Width 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Garnet-Epidote Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Picacho District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVEN SMALL OPEN CUTS AND AN INCLINED SHAFT, DRIVEN TO CROSSCUT A FEW GOLD-QUARTZ STRINGERS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BELL, 1947, USGS OPEN FILE REPORT 384.

  • Deposit

    DALE, 1959, USBM RI 5516.

  • Deposit

    JAHNS, 1952, ABM BULL 162.

  • Deposit

    ABM FILE DATA.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M800237 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit SEE ALSO TAMARAK GROUP, MRDS RECORD M002844.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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.