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Midnight Mine

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Lead, 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048100
MRDS ID M800088
Record type Site
Current site name Midnight Mine
Related records 10186373

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.86127, 31.98151 (WGS84)
Elevation 866
Relative position 5 MILES NNE OF SELLS TOWNSITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sells East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Simon Wash(hydrologic unit)

Rio Sonoyta(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 017S 005E 5 SE OF NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • SPELLED MIONITE ON SELLS QUADRANGLE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Secondary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Partly Oxidized

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.86127, 31.98151
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Small Faults And Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOLOGY REFERENCE NOT SPECIFIC TO TWO MINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1942
Year of last production 1942

Comments on development

  • ONE TON PRODUCED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT 189, P. 110

  • 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

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.