Brown Bird Mine Group

Past Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10137408
MRDS ID M000220
MAS/MILS ID 0040230042
Record type Site
Current site name Brown Bird Mine Group
Alternate or previous names Blue Wing
Related records 10026780

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -111.25759, 31.45703 (WGS84)
Elevation 1310

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bartlett Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Atascosa Mountains(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

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 023 S 011 E 06 SESENW Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Secondary
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -111.25759, 31.45703

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Oro Blanco

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Hack; Pa Rrish
    Year 1975
  • Type Unknown
    Owner B. And B Mining
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN SANTA CRUZ CTY

  • Deposit

    SANTA CRUZ COUNTY RECORDER'S RECORDS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 06-AUG-93 ADMR U.S. Bureau of Mines

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.