Alfonso Villey Mine

Past Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodity Copper
Sections on this page
  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 10048332
MRDS ID M899916
Record type Site
Current site name Alfonso Villey Mine
Related records 10210217

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.7115, 31.3357 (WGS84)
Elevation 1814
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position WEST OF THE BENTON MINE, Used Schrader (1915) And Usbm Files, Used Schrader (1915) And Usbm Files

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Duquesne(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Santa Cruz(hydrologic unit)

Santa Cruz(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Coronado National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Santa Cruz

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 024S 016E 16 SE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 1/4 MINE E-NE OF INTERNATIONAL-BOUNDARY POST 114 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitic Zone At Contact Of Quartz Monzonite And Granite Porphyry

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 58

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.7115, 31.3357

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Quartz Monzonite Country Rock Is Cut In Region By Granite Porphyry, Diorite, And Aplitic Granite
Type of structure Local
Structure description Vein Contains Sesams Of Pyrite And Chalcopyrite Coated With Chalcocite And Covellite

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N70W
    Dip VERTICAL
    Width 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Nw-Trending Fissure Vein And Smaller Fissures In Quartz Monzonite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Querces District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Villy, Alfonso
    First year 1915

Comments on the workings information

  • VEIN OPENED BY SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM FILE DATA-CLUSTER #5

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., 1915, USGS BULL, 582, P. 347.

  • Deposit

    SIMONS, FRANK S. 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF THE NOGALES AND LOCHIEL QUADRANGLES, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; USGS MAP I-762 (1:48000)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE MINERALS FOUND IN SMALL SEAMS. QUARTZ VEINS IN QUARTZ MONZONITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-82 Laraba, Peter (Calder, Susan) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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