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Minnesota Mine

Producer in Santa Cruz 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. 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. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109886
MRDS ID M899906
Record type Site
Current site name Minnesota Mine
Alternate or previous names Marche Mine
Related records 10113508

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.75595, 31.38875 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position 6 MILES E-SE OF NOGALES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cumero Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Santa Cruz(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Santa Cruz

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 023S 016E 31 NW OF NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • IN PROVIDENCIA CANYON; 1 1/4 MILES EAST OF GOLDEN ROSE MINE; 4.0 MILES NW OF WASHINGTON CAMP ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO SULPHIDES NOTED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Strong Potassic Alteration; Granodiorite Is Highly Shattered, Sheeted, And Crushed

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.75595, 31.38875
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Deposits Occur In Form Of Subordinate Veins, Lenses, Stringers, And Seams In Fissures, Joints, Sheeting Planes, And Other Fractures In Quartz Monzonite And Diorite

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NE-SW
    Dip 35 SE
    Width 0.61M
  • General form TABULAR
    Dip 35 SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ne-Trending Quartz Vein Cutting Quartz Monzonite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1952
Year of last production 1953

Mining district

District name Patagonia District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner W. W. Todd And Joe Bostwick 53)
    First year 1952

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 27.43M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO TUNNEL DRIFTS DRIVEN IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE GULCH.THE SOUTHERLY TUNNEL IS 90 FEET IN LENGTH.

Comments on development

  • DEVELOPMENT BEGAN AS EARLY AS 1900

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USBM FILE DATA-CLUSTER #22, MINNESOTA MINE

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., 1915, USGS BULL, 582, P.316

  • Deposit

    SIMONS, FRANK S 1974 GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF THE NOGALES AND LOCHIEL QUADRANGLES, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; USGS MAP I-762 (1=48000)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1982 Laraba, Peter (Calder, Susan) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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