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San Carlos Group

Occurrence in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Lead
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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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039580
MRDS ID M050366
Record type Site
Current site name San Carlos Group
Alternate or previous names San Carlos 1 Mine, San Carlos 2 Mine
Related records 10259149

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.09125, 31.96984 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Twin Buttes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sells(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 17S 12E 11 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • STRINGER OF CP

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.09125, 31.96984
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 0.15M
    Depth to bottom 30.48M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pima District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1972 Theodore, Ted G. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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