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Santa Rita Group

Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  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 10109826
MRDS ID M800098
Record type Site
Current site name Santa Rita Group
Related records 10162321

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.80762, 31.7343 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Wrightson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Huachuca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rillito(hydrologic unit)

Santa Cruz(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(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)

Mt. Wrightson Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness 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 019S 015E 33 SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • ASSUMED CENTER OF SW 1/4 SECTION 33, MILS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.80762, 31.7343
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Block Faulting

Comments on the geologic information

  • DISTRICT GEOLOGY DESCRIBED, SPECIFIC MINE NOT DESCRIBED IN ABGMT 189. FOUND IN EITHER PRECAMBRIAN GRANITE OR CRETACEOUS SEDIMENTS QUARTZ LATITE DIKES IN AREA

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1935
Year of last production 1935

Mining district

District name Greaterville District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner J. Christenson

Comments on development

  • TWO TONS, ONE YEAR PLACER MINE OPERATING ON SAME SITE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT 189, P. 120

  • 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.