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Fair Play Mine

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc
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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. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048089
MRDS ID M800073
Record type Site
Current site name Fair Play Mine
Related records 10162060

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.35569, 31.52874 (WGS84)
Relative position 1/2 MILE SW OF EDWARDS MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Arivaca(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

Coronado National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 022S 010E 7 N2 OF SW4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • ONE OF TWO PROSPECTS IN SW 1/4 OF SEC 7, MILS LOCATION ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.35569, 31.52874
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINE NOT MENTIONED IN ABGMT 189. DISTRICT DESCRIPTION USED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1931
Year of last production 1962

Mining district

District name Arivaca District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Howard Townsend, Lauritzen

Comments on development

  • 1931, 1962 ARE ONLY 2 YEARS OF PRODUCTION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT 189, P. 103, 104

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Gest, Don E. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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