Papago Mine

Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Manganese
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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109775
MRDS ID M241174
Record type Site
Current site name Papago Mine
Related records 10161636

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.18155, 32.56788 (WGS84)
Elevation 616
Relative position ABOUT 1.6 MILES NORTH OF CATHEDRAL ROCK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copperosity Hills(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gila Bend(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ajo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Santa Rosa Wash(hydrologic unit)

Santa Cruz(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 010S 002E 08 SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • IN KOHATK VALLEY JUST NORTH OF COPPEROSITY HILLS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Silver Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.18155, 32.56788

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description E-W Fault, Dips South 40

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W
    Dip 40 TO 60 SOUTH
    Thickness 45.72M
    Length 914.4M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • E-W Trending Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1902

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 200.25M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • CROSSCUT TRENCHES ON VEIN, 3 SHAFTS OF 100 FT MAXIMUM WITH CROSSCUT DRIFTS FROM 2 OF THEM, SHORT TUNNEL

Comments on development

  • CONSISTS OF 41 UNPATENTED CLAIMS; CLAIMS LOCATED IN 1902 BY W.T. DAVIS AT WHICH TIME THERE WERE ALREADY ABAONDONED WORKINGS ON THE PROPERTY. PRODUCED IN 1880'S-1890'S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    TENNEY, JAMES, HISTORY OF MINING IN ARIZONA, 1927-1929 P 342

  • Deposit

    TENNEY, J.B., ECONOMIC GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF CASA GRANDE MINING DISTRICT, AZ BUREAU OF MINES, 1934, P 15-16

  • Deposit

    USAEC PRELIM RECONN REPORT 172-488 1953 P11

  • Deposit

    USGS MF-931

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LEDGE OF SILICIFIED GRANITE BRECCIA CONTAINING DISSEMINATED GOLD AND SILVER MINERALS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1982 Roth, Frances A. (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.

External references

Authoritative Arizona resources

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