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San Juan Mine

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Silver, Bismuth, Beryllium, Lithium, Gallium, Cadmium
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009832
MRDS ID D003068
Record type Site
Current site name San Juan Mine
Alternate or previous names Gordon Mine, San Juan Group
Related records 10161252

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.98344, 31.88291 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position APPROX 3.5 MI NW OF BLACK DIAMOND PEAK AND 12.8 KM N AND 16 KM W OF COURTLAND.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cochise Stronghold(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chiricahua Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper San Pedro(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Coronado National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 018S 023E 10 CENTER Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Secondary
Silver Secondary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary
Beryllium Critical Tertiary
Lithium Critical Tertiary
Gallium Critical Tertiary
Cadmium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Hematite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Contact Metamorphism

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Abrigo Limestone
    Rock description Abrigo Lst
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.98344, 31.88291
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Fault N65to75w, Steeply Dipping
Type of structure Local
Structure description East Dipping, Nw-Trending Thrust Sheets. Beds In Area Dip Gently Ne. Strong Sheet Faulting Dips 25nw. Fissures Strike N25w, N30e, And N05w

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Strike N70W
    Dip SHALLOW-SOUTHEASTWARD
    Thickness 12.19M
    Length 100.58M
    Width 60.96M
    Depth to top 15.24M
    Depth to bottom 27.43M

Comments on the geologic information

  • VERY HIGH GRADE ZINC DEPOSIT WITH VOLUMES OF SOLID SPHALERITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1913
Year of first production 1913
Year of last production 1952

Mining district

District name Middle Pass District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Jonathan Gordon Operations, Inc.
    Home office Tombstone, Az.
    First year 1951
  • Type Owner
    Owner Howard Birchfield

Production statistics

  • Year 1913
    Period 1913
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Zinc Zinc 15wt-pct

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ORE BODY DIMENSIONS INDICATE THAT AS MUCH AS 250,000 ST OF ORE COULD STILL BE PRESENT (SAWYER AND OTHERS, 1992).

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.058HA
    Overall length 100.58M
    Overall width 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • ORE IS MINED OUT BY TUNNELS INTO THE MOUNTAIN ON 3 DIFFERENT LEVELS. THERE IS ABOUT 2000 FT OF DRIFTING ON THESE THREE LEVELS. THERE IS A TOTAL OF 6 ADITS, WHICH 4 ARE JOINED

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED JONATHAN GORDON; 14 UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ARIZ. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 187.

  • Deposit

    AZBM BULL. 158, P. 20-23.

  • Deposit

    USGS MR-22, P. 4.

  • Deposit

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

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Hasler, J. William U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1981 Peterson, Jocelyn A. (Page, S. S.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1994 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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