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Orizaba Mine

Producer in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109024
MRDS ID M002748
Record type Site
Current site name Orizaba Mine
Alternate or previous names Truman, Orizab1
Related records 10162062

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.08129, 34.00839 (WGS84)
Relative position 47 MILES N OF PHOENIX, 5 MILES E OF BLACK CANYON HWY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Willow Spring Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bradshaw Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Agua Fria(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 008N 003E 29 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Yavapai Schist
    Rock description Yavapai Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.08129, 34.00839
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 1371.6M
    Width 12.19M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name New River District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Allied Mining And Smelting Co.
    First year 1940
  • Type Owner
    Owner Orizaba Mining Co.
    First year 1937

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • 90,000 TONS AT 6 % CU AND $2-3/TON AU+AG

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 60.96M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S.B.M. CARD FILE.

  • Deposit

    MINING WORLD, 1948.

  • Production

    MINING WORLD, 1948

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. 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

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