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La Fortuna Mine

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Lead
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109821
MRDS ID M800081
Record type Site
Current site name La Fortuna Mine
Related records 10210694

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.90099, 32.35289 (WGS84)
Elevation 686
Relative position 1 1/2 MILES WEST OF GUACHI PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Santa Rosa Mountains SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver Bell Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(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 Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 012S 005E 30 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • ASSUMED PROSPECT SIGN, LOCATED BY MILS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.90099, 32.35289
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Fault Or Shear Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINE NOT MENTIONED IN ABGMT 189. DISTRICT DESCRIPTION USED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1928
Year of last production 1928

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT 189, P142

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 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.

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