San Luis Wash Tungsten Placers

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109602
MRDS ID M050238
Record type Site
Current site name San Luis Wash Tungsten Placers
Related records 10210410

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.40097, 31.51624 (WGS84)
Elevation 1372
Relative position 5.5 MILES SW OF ARIVACA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wilbur Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio De La Concepcion(hydrologic unit)

Rio De La Concepcion(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(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 Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 022S 009E 14 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • W CENTRAL SECTION 14.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore

Analytical data

Result 3 % WO3 , AND CONCENTRATES AS 20 % WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.40097, 31.51624

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1952

Mining district

District name Arivica District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Coronado National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • (1) "FEW" TENS OF POUNDS OF CONCENTRATES PRODUCED IN MID - 1950'S. IN 1952 UP TO 60 TONS OF GRAVEL PER DAY WERE MINED WHICH CONTAINED UP TO 0.25% TUNGSTEN CONCENTRATES.

Comments on the workings information

  • DRY WASHER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S.B., 1974, INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 189, P. 106.

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., STEWART, L.A., MCKINNEY, W.A., 1960, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF COCHISE, PIMA, AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES, ARIZ.: USBM RI 5650.

  • Deposit

    HEYLMUN, E.B., 1987, THE SAN LUIS MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA: CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL, V. 56, NO 10, P. 71-75.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    ( 1 ) KEITH, S. B., 1974 , P. 106; HEYLMUN, E.B., 1987, P. 74.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000817 OF JAMES E. ELLIOT WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit THE RICHEST PART OF THE WASH IS 3,500 FT IN LENGTH AND UP TO 22 FT IN WIDTH WITH DEPTH RANGING FROM A FEW INCHES TO THREE FT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1990 Bolm, Karen S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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