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Sunset Mine

Past Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum
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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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048109
MRDS ID M800103
Record type Site
Current site name Sunset Mine
Alternate or previous names Rochester
Related records 10259061

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.93043, 32.02872 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position NEAR MILDREN AND STEPPE MINES, Center Of Sw/4 Sec 21 Assumed, Mils Location

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ko Vaya(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver Bell Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(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 016S 004E 21 SW4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

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) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.93043, 32.02872
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Minor Faults And Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • INFORMATION NOT SPECIFIC TO THIS MINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1935
Year of last production 1935

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, 1974, ABM BULL 189, P 110

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M800103 WITH RE CORD M030515 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-83 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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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