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White Tail Mine

Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Iron
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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. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109856
MRDS ID M800322
Record type Site
Current site name White Tail Mine
Alternate or previous names Grant Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.98344, 31.8793 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position 1 1/I MI SW OF COCHISE PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cochise Stronghold(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chiricahua Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper San Pedro(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 018S 023E 10 CENTER OF E Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Copper Secondary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Hematite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation, Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.98344, 31.8793
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Complex Tertiary Faulting Of Paleozoic And Cretaceous Sediments, Tertiary Intrusives
Type of structure Local
Structure description East Dipping, Nw Trending Thrust Sheets, Steep Dipping To Overturned Cretaceous Beds

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Fault Breccia

Comments on the geologic information

  • FAULT BRECCIA MADE UP OF PALEOZOIC LIMESTONE FRAGMENTS. AGE AND FORMATION UNDEFINED IN LITERATURE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1917
Year of last production 1965

Mining district

District name Middle Pass District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • TUNNEL

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED E.B. ESCAPULE, C.L. JONES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 187, P. 69

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1982 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

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