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La Carava Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048094
MRDS ID M800080
Record type Site
Current site name La Carava Mine
Related records 10210336

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.33402, 31.58346 (WGS84)
Relative position 1 MILE NW OF TOWN OF ARIVACA

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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 021S 010E 20 SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • CENTER OF SW 1/4 SECTION 20 ASSUMED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Copper Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NEARBY AMADO MINE CONTAINS ARGENTIFEROUS GALENA AND CHALCOPYRITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation, Surface Enrichment

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Amado Granite
    Rock description Amado Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Jurassic granitic rocks
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures In Granite

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINE NOT MENTIONED IN ABGMT 189. NEARBY AMADO GROUP, M050508, DESCRIPTION USED, AND DISTRICT DESCRIPTION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1958
Year of last production 1963

Mining district

District name Amado District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Still And Frisbe

Comments on development

  • ALL PRODUCTION IN 1958 AND 1963 75 TONS AT 1.4 OZ AG/T, 0.4 OZ AU/T.

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

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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