Starlight Mine

Past Producer in Graham county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver
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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027110
MRDS ID M002128
Record type Site
Current site name Starlight Mine
Alternate or previous names Tri-Bullion Mine
Related records 10137855

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.36429, 33.09287 (WGS84)
Elevation 1250
Relative position 10 MILES NORTH OF ARAVIPA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Graham(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Turnbull(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Globe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-San Carlos Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Graham

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S 019E 11,14 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Secondary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Cuprite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Melaconite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Quartz, Chlorite, Epidote, Calcite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.36429, 33.09287

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Paleozoic Beds Appear To Be Overturned

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N45W
    Dip 65 TO 70

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1886
Year of first production 1906
Year of last production 1969

Mining district

District name Stanley District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner USBM-ABGMT List As Past Operators; Dick N. Campbell, H.W. Wolfe, Pan Am Mining Co., Starlight Mining
  • Type Owner
    Owner Tribullion Smelting And Development Co. (-; Tri-Bullion Corp. ), G.L. Wright
    First year 1928
    Last year 1928

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 763, P. 113-114.

  • Deposit

    ABM BULL 140, P. 93.

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    USGS BULL. 763 , P. 113 ; ABM BULLETIN 140 , P. 93 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1982 Laraba, Peter (Gest, Don E.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 18-APR-1995 Orris, Greta J. 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.