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Payoff Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109824
MRDS ID M800093
Record type Site
Current site name Payoff Mine
Related records 10210241

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.56431, 31.53652 (WGS84)
Relative position 1/4 MILE SOUTH OF AJAX MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Presumido Peak(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

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

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 010E 5 SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • CENTER OF SW 1/4 SECTION 5 ASSUMED; MANY PROSPECTS; MILS LOCATION ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NEARBY AJAX MINE CONTAINS CHALCOPYRITE AND ARGENTIFEROUS GALENA

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation, Surface Weathering

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.56431, 31.53652
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINE NOT MENTIONED IN ABGMT 189. DESCRIPTION OF AJAX MINE, M050509, AND 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 1951
Year of last production 1952

Mining district

District name Arivaca District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Martin Gibbs And Karl Stewart

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT 189, P 103

  • 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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Authoritative Arizona resources

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