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Sunset Limited Mine Group

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Tungsten
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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. Production statistics
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048195
MRDS ID M800266
Record type Site
Current site name Sunset Limited Mine Group
Alternate or previous names Yellow Astor Wonder

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.6324, 32.17928 (WGS84)
Elevation 664
Relative position 19 MILES SE OF AJO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gunsight(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ajo(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ajo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Cristobal Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(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 014S 004W 25 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 SECTION 25 . PAPAGO INDIAN RESERVATION.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore
Silver Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.6324, 32.17928
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Width 1.22M

Comments on the geologic information

  • WEATHERED GRANITIC PEDIMENT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Production statistics

  • Year 1919
    Period 1880 - 19
    Material ORE AU
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^1 Oz. Au/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Gold Gold 28wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • DEPOSIT WAS WORKED ABOUT 1917 WITH AN OUTPUT OF ABOUT 1 TON OF SCHEELITE ORE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT AND OPEN CUT WORKINGS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S. B., 1974 , INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 189 , P. 123 .

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E. D., 1941 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 148 , P. 41 .

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L, 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S.: USGS MAP MR-25.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    ABM BULLETIN 189 , P. 123 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit STEEP DIP VEINS
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS INFORMATION FROM RECORD D000822 BY JAMES E. ELLIOT WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1990 Bolm, Karen S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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