Danville-Hanchetta Claims

Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Manganese, 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. General comments
  23. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109007
MRDS ID M002130
Record type Site
Current site name Danville-Hanchetta Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.90509, 31.41403 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bisbee(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper San Pedro(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 023S 024E 22 NW4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED AREA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Gossan With Mn And Fe Oxides Induced By Hydrothermal Metamorphism

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 74
USGS model code 19b
Deposit model name Replacement Mn

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Sacramento Hill Stock
    Rock description Sacramento Hill Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Jurassic
    Chronological age 170.5
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Naco Group Limestone
    Rock description Naco Group Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.90509, 31.41403

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Pre-Mineralization Faulting And Tilting
Type of structure Local
Structure description Main Fault Directions, N10w To N40e, S30w To N50w, Pre-Mineralization

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 152.4M
    Width 2.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting And Associated Brecciation

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mining district

District name Warren District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Phelps Dodge Corp.

Comments on the production information

  • 800 T. FROM ATLAS CLAIM; 600-700 T. FROM CROWN KING; 1 CARLOAD FROM BOREAS; & 1500 T. FROM NO. 4 CLAIM TO 3/1918

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUT AND PIT WORKINGS. OPEN CUTS RANGE FROM 20 TO 60 FT IN LENGTH AND WERE AS MUCH AS 10 FT DEEP

Comments on development

  • NOW COVERED BY TAILINGS DUMP

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 710, 1920, PL. IV, P. 109-112.

  • Deposit

    ARIZ. B. OF M. BULL. 127, 1930, P. 41-44.

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S.B., 1973, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 187, P. 86.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    KEITH, 1973, ARIZ. BUR. OF MINES BULL. 187.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALSO: CROWN KING, BOREAS, NO. 4, & SUMMIT CLAIMS. SMALL AMOUNTS OF SILVER ON DANVILLE, HANCHETTE FRACTION, & NO. 4 CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit HARD MANGANESE OXIDES WITH IRON OXIDES, CALCITE AND MINOR COPPER STAINING IN SCATTERED OREBODIES ALONG A FISSURE ZONE IN LIMESTONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Laraba, Peter (Gest, Don E.) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

Authoritative Arizona resources

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