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Santa Lucia Mine

Producer in Greenlee county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048276
MRDS ID M800399
Record type Site
Current site name Santa Lucia Mine
Alternate or previous names Jupiter Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.37732, 33.12899 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 0.5 MILE SW OF THE MOUTH OF GARFIELD GULCH; 1.5 MILES NW OF METCALF, Used Blm District Sheet 837 And Usgs Professional Paper 43 (1905), Used Blm District Sheet 837 And Usgs Professional Paper 43 (1905), Used Blm District Sheet 837 And Usgs Professional Paper 43 (1905)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Coronado Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Francisco(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Greenlee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 003S 029E 32 S2 OF NE OF N2 OF SE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • EITHER OF TWO ADITS IN SE CORNER OF NE QUARTER OF SECTION 32 (SEE BLM DISTRICT SHEET 837) ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Dioptase Ore
Malachite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor; Limestones In This Vicinity Are Unalterred

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Precambrian Granite Basement;Morenci Granite Porphyry
    Rock description Precambrian Granite Basement;Morenci Granite Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 55.5
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 55.5
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Modoc Limestone;Morenci Shale
    Rock description Modoc Limestone;Morenci Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.37732, 33.12899
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Fissure Veins In Limestone And Basal Granite Sequences; And Irregular Bodies On Or Near Contacts Of Intrusive Masses
Type of structure Local
Structure description Porphyry Dike At Or Near Contact Of Basal Granite And Limestone Sequences

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR ORE SHOOTS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ne Trending Fissure Veins

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE BODY IS EITHER AN IRREGULAR DEPOSIT IN LIMESTONE AT OR NEAR PORPHYRY CONTACT, OR A FISSURE VEIN DEPOSIT IN PORPHYRY DIKE BETWEEN LIMESTONE AND BASAL GRANITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875
Discoverer Charles E. Stevens; Isaac Stevens
Year of first production 1907
Year of last production 1918

Mining district

District name Copper Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Phelps Dodge Corp., Morenci Branch

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENTS ON STEVENS CLAIMS WEST OF CHASE CREEK AND NEAR GARFIELD GULCH CONSISTED PRIMARILY OF DRIVING SHORT TUNNELS TO INTERSECT RELATIVELY SMALL ORE SHOOTS (SEE USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 43, 1905)

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED BAINES AND VALDEZ, STEVENS COPPER CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BLM DISTRICT SHEET 837

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 43

  • Deposit

    BENNETT, K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORIGINAL CLAIM OF SANTA LUCIA OVERLAPPED BY SANTA ISABELLA AND JUPITER CLAIMS OF STEVENS GROUP
Deposit SEE ALSO: STEVENS GROUP, MONTE CRISTO MINE FOR GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit Discovery Year: LATE 1800'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-81 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

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