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San Jose Prospects

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold
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  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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039691
MRDS ID M050665
Record type Site
Current site name San Jose Prospects
Alternate or previous names Gold Mine Ridge
Related records 10135091

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.24456, 32.14318 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deepwell Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Pedro(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 015S 021E 12 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4 SEC. 12. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.24456, 32.14318
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 60.96M
    Width 0.91M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Yellowstone District

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on the production information

  • SOME SCATTERED TEST LOTS PRODUCED IN THE LATE 1920'S AND EARLY 1930'S.

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH,S.B.1973, COCHISE COUNTY: ABM BULL 187

  • Deposit

    COOPER & SILVER, 1964, DRAGOON QUAD; USGS P.P. 416

  • Deposit

    SILVER AND DEUTSCH, 1963, ANNALS N.Y. ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, V. 91, P. 271-183

  • Production

    KEITH, 1973, ARIZ. BUR. OF MINES BULL. 187.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NARROW, IRON OXIDE AND QUARTZ VEINS, WITH WEAKAND SPOTTY COPPER OXIDES AND CARBONATES, AND MINOR CHALCOPYRITE, GALENA, SPHALERITE, AND PYRITE, CUTTING GRANODIORITE AND A THRUST PLANE ZONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1973 Johnson, Maureen G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Gest, Don E. 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

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