1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Victoria Mine

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026754
MRDS ID M000084
Record type Site
Current site name Victoria Mine
Alternate or previous names La Americana
Related records 10162014

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.83823, 31.93955 (WGS84)
Elevation 512
Relative position 3 3/4 MILES NNW OF LUKEVILLE AT MEXICO BORDER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lukeville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lukeville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lukeville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Sonoyta(hydrologic unit)

Rio Sonoyta(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument(National Monument)

National Monument NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 017S 006W 24 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • USBM LATITUDE IS INCORRECT (31-55-00N)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.83823, 31.93955
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shear Zone In Schist.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, SPOTTY

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1915
Year of last production 1935

Mining district

District name Montezuma District

Land status

Ownership category National Park

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION PRIOR TO 1900 , 1915 - 1918 , AND 1935 .

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS AND GLORY HOLE.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED M.G. LEVY, JOSEPHINE E. KNI

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S. B., 1974 , INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN, 189 , P. 129

  • Production

    ABM BULLETIN 189 , P. 129 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Arizona resources

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