Manila Mine

Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039574
MRDS ID M050357
Record type Site
Current site name Manila Mine
Alternate or previous names Panama, Huachuca Queen

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.44761, 31.55653 (WGS84)
Relative position WITHIN BOUNDARY OF FORT HUACHUCA MILITARY RESERVATION.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pyeatt Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Huachuca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(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

ARMY(Federal land areas administered by ARMY)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 021S 019E 31 SE OF SE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED IN RESERVATION. ABOVE CADASTRAL IS EXTENSION OF SURVEY LINES ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Other: Quartz

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.44761, 31.55653

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Badly Faulted And Folded Sedimentary Formations (Pal-Cret), All Under Overthrust Plane. Thrust Fault Is East Of Deposit

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N40E
    Dip 80SW
    Length 437.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Steeply Dipping Fault, Dips 65nw, And Associated Steeply Dipping Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1924
Year of last production 1949
Production years 1925, 26, 28

Mining district

District name Hartford District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Comments on the production information

  • INCOMPLETE PRODUCTION.

Comments on the workings information

  • SHORT ADITS,PITS, SHALLOW SHAFTS.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED LEE REGAN, HUACHUCA QUEEN MINE, LEAD BULLION MINING CO

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILSON, 1951 ABM BULL. 158

  • Deposit

    ALEXIS , GO, 1949, PH. D. THESIS.

  • Deposit

    HAYES & RAUP, 1968, MAP I 509

  • Deposit

    CREASEY,S.C.,1973

  • Deposit

    ABM BULL 187, P. 66

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    WILSON, 1951 FROM USGS MIN RES.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RECORD INFORMATION ALSO SUPPLIED BY ABGMT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1972 Johnson, M. G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1981 Gest, Don E. 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.