Unnamed Prospect

Occurrence in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Manganese, Sulfur-Pyrite
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039639
MRDS ID M050552
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.28625, 31.92262 (WGS84)
Relative position N OF AGUINALDO MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stevens Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Brawley Wash(hydrologic unit)

Santa Cruz(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

Bureau of Land Management AZ BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

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 10E 26 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Sulfur-Pyrite Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Actinolite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Quartz-Sericite-Pyrite.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.28625, 31.92262

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Intensely Sheared Quartz Monzonite.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Of Limestone And Quartz Monzonite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Papago District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRIEGER,M.,1973,FIELD EXAM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1973 Krieger, Medora H. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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