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

Madera Canyon Placers

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodity Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026979
MRDS ID M001547
Record type Site
Current site name Madera Canyon Placers
Alternate or previous names Old Baldy Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.88457, 31.73624 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position AT SANTA CRUZ-PIMA COUNTY BORDER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Hopkins(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Huachuca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Santa Cruz(hydrologic unit)

Santa Cruz(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 Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 019S 014E 27,28,35 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • PLACERS DRAIN FROM SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, TO THE SOUTH.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.88457, 31.73624
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 30.48M
    Width 8046.5M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Old Baldy District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION RECORD. RECENT ACTIVITY IN 1932 - 33 WHEN DEPOSITS WERE SAMPLED. PRODUCED IN LATE 1880'S.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 24.38M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT AND MANY SURFACE WORKINGS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M. G., 1972 , PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: USGS BULLETIN 1355 , P. 43 .

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E. D., 1952 , ARIZONA GOLD PLACERS AND PLACERING (FIFTH EDITION REVISED): ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 160 , P. 80 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MADERA CANYON ALLUVIAL FAN

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.

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.