Arizona Gold Mine

Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109880
MRDS ID M899877
Record type Site
Current site name Arizona Gold Mine
Related records 10162211

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.04153, 33.11259 (WGS84)
Elevation 549
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 0.5 MILES SOUTH OF THE "SPINE" RIDGE, Utm Measured To Center Of Section Given By Usbm Mils

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grayback(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

USBR(Federal land areas administered by USBR)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S 013E 5 CENTER Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 300 FT NORTH OF THE GILA RIVER. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CHALCOPYRITE FOUND IN MINES TO EAST WITH SIMILAR GEOLOGY

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Ruin Granite;Rhyodacite Porphyry
    Rock description Ruin Granite;Rhyodacite Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.04153, 33.11259

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description E-W Trending Rhyodacite Porphyry Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEIN DEPOSITS PROBABLY RELATED TO RHYODACITE INTRUSIVE EPISODE

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 1940

Mining district

District name Riverside District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Leo And Mary Truofreh
    First year 1961

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS INCLUDE 4 SHAFTS AND 2 TUNNELS OF UNKNOWN SIZE

Comments on development

  • 5 CLAIMS; OPERATORS INCLUDED MARY ORTEGA, THOMAS PURYEAR, FRED BROWN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT MIN RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USGS GQ 1206

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-82 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.

Authoritative Arizona resources

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