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Copper Butte Mine

Past Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silica, 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. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048295
MRDS ID M899855
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Butte Mine
Alternate or previous names Patented Claims, June Bug, Cochise, Old Fred Mitchell Property, James Incline, Poor Mans Wash Propety, Wallace Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.06292, 33.1487 (WGS84)
Elevation 777
Relative position 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF COPPER BUTTE SUMMIT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Teapot Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 003S 013E 19,30 SE OF SW OF SW (19); NW OF NE OF NW (30) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 3 SHAFTS SHOWN ON MAP, UTM IS WHERE 2 OF THESE SHAFTS ARE CLOSE TOGETHER IN SECTION 31. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silica Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Quartz Ore
Tenorite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Iron Oxide Staining

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Rock unit name Whitetail Conglomerate
    Rock description Whitetail Conglomerate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Fault Of Nw Strike Sw Dip Separates Whitetail From Dacite To South. Beds Weakly Stratified, Strike N30-70w, Steep Dip.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Small Faults, Nise A Common Strike, Throughout Area. Minor Faults Separate Ore From Gangue.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Gray Zones Of The Conglomerate

Comments on the geologic information

  • THIS DEPOSIT PROBABLY ALLUVIAL MATERIAL FORMED BY EROSION OF SUPERGENE DEPOSITS OF RAY AND MIAMI.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1917
Year of last production 1971

Mining district

District name Copper Butte District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Copper Butte Mining Co

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 6.133HA
    Overall depth 91.44M
    Overall length 426.72M
    Overall width 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • 5 PITS, 4 SHAFTS. ONE 400 FT INCLINED SHAFT IN 1913, ONE 114 FT SHAFT JOINS TO ALOWER TUNNEL 700 FT LONG.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS ALSO INCLUDED C.F. MITCHELL. PITS WERE BEGUN IN 1940'S. IN 1913, AN INCLINED SHAFT DUG.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 3914, AUG, 1946, 34 P.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIFFINGS FILE.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SPORADIC DEPOSITION IN CONGLOMERATE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1982 Gest, Don E. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-JUN-1993 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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