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Silver Camp Mine

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  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 10046176
MRDS ID M241009
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Camp Mine
Alternate or previous names Mcginty, Golden Belle, Eldorado, Parent, Question
Related records 10282449

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.64648, 32.23762 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676
Relative position APPROX 6 MI NE OF DOS CABEZAS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Simmons Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Willcox(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Simon(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

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 026E 12 NW4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • NW 1/4 SEC 12 UTM EST

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Garnet Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.64648, 32.23762
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Major N-S Trending Normal Fault Through Area, Mineralization Is On West, Downthrown Side

Ore body information

  • General form VEINS

Comments on the geologic information

  • LARAMIDE FAULT BLOCK OF PYROMETAMORPHOSED LIMESTONES CUT BY DIABASE DIKES. MAJOR COUNTRY ROCK IS LARAMIDE VOLCANICS AND INTRUSIVE GRANITIC ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1885
Year of last production 1937

Mining district

District name Silver Camp District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Parent Mining Co
  • Type Owner
    Owner Pidgeon, Ethel M.
    First year 1969

Comments on the production information

  • FIRST CLAIMS IN THE DISTRICT AND OVER 500 TONS OF ORE PRODUCED IN LATE 1880'S. A FEW TENS OF TONS SHIPPED IN THE 1930'S.

Comments on the workings information

  • A FEW THOUSAND FEET OF WORK FROM TUNNELS AND SHAFTS

Comments on development

  • 8 PATENTED AND 8 UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN 1969

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S B, 1973, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 187, P 62.

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Production

    KEITH, 1973, ARIZ BUR OF MINES BULL 187.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IN A FAULT BLOCK OF PYROMETA MORPHOSED LIMESTONES CUT BY DIABASE DIKES AND WITH SILVER MINERALIZATION AND SOME GOLD IN A QUARTZ-PYRITE VEIN ALONG A FAULT FISSURE AND AT DIABASE AND RHYOLITE DIKE INTERSECTIONS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Zigler, Jan L. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1981 Gest, Don E. U.S. Geological Survey

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