Elevation Mine Group

Occurrence in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Silver
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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048347
MRDS ID M899934
Record type Site
Current site name Elevation Mine Group
Related records 10234929

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.72373, 31.52097 (WGS84)
Elevation 1524
Relative position 2.5 MILES SE OF PATAGONIA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Hughes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Huachuca(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 022S 016E 16 SW OF NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ON NE SLOPE OF RED MOUNTAIN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Andesite And Rhyolite Highly Altered; Surface Oxidation To Unknown Depths

Analytical data

Result ASSAY VALUES FOR EARLY 1900'S AVERAGED 16%CU, 10% PB, 30 OZ/TON AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.72373, 31.52097

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description E-W And N-S Trending Faults In Tertiary Volcanics
Type of structure Local
Structure description Thick-Bedded, Very Fine-Grained Volcanics Associated With Red Mountain

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike E-W
    Dip VERTICAL
    Length 15.24M
    Width 7.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • E-W Trending Vertical Fault Or Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • VOLCANIC ROCKS OF RED MOUNTAIN ARE HIGHLY ALTERED AND LOCALLY MINERALIZED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1890
Discoverer Weatherwax

Mining district

District name Harshaw District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 274.32M
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDED A 600-FT CROSSCUT TUNNEL, 50-FT SHAFT, 100 FT OF DRIFTS, 200 FT OF CROSSCUTS

Comments on development

  • NO AVAILABLE RECORDS OF DEVELOPMENT AFTER 1915; NO RECORDS OF PRODUCTION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DISSEMINATED COPPER MINERALS OCCUR IN 50-FT. SECTION OF GRAY-WHITE SOFT ALTERED ANDESEITE; WITHIN SHEAR ZONE, MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN 5 FT. BAND OF BRECCIA AND GOUGE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1982 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.