American Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039694
MRDS ID M050668
Record type Site
Current site name American Mine
Alternate or previous names War Eagle, La Ventia, American Shaft
Related records 10161528

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.24873, 32.21484 (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 014S 020E 13 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • E. CENTER SEC. 13. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Silica Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Fluorite Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Quartz-Sericite-Pyrite Alteration, Pyrite Gossan

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Johnny Lyon Granodiorite
    Rock description Johnny Lyon Granodiorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.24873, 32.21484

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Jasperoid Mass

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1924

Mining district

District name Yellowstone District

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner La Vantia Mining Co.

Comments on the production information

  • FROM DUMP; DEVELOPED UNDERGROUND IN 1890' S FOR AU & AG.

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINED SHAFT, S68E, 55NE, IS AT LEAST 100 FT DEEP. WORKINGS FLOODED IN 1964

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S., 1973, INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZ. BUREAU OF MINES BULL 187.

  • Deposit

    COOPER & SILVER, 1964, DRAGOON QUAD: USGS PP. 416, P. 161.

  • Deposit

    SILVER AND DEUTSCH, 1963, N.Y. ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ANNALS, V. 91, P. 279-283.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    KEITH, 1973.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit JASPEROID ZONE FORMING IN LIMESTONE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit DEPOSIT IN A THRUST PLANE IN GRANODIORITE. LOCAL CONCENTRATIONS OF SPECULARITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1973 Johnson, Maureen G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1980 Zigler, Jan L. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1981 Gest, Don E. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-DEC-1992 Orris, Greta J. 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.