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Blue Nose Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10161923
MRDS ID M899940
MAS/MILS ID 0040230420
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Nose Mine
Alternate or previous names Esperanza
Related records 10048353

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.73257, 31.44794 (WGS84)
Elevation 1615
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Harshaw(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 023 S 016 E 08 C Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Manganese Critical Secondary
Silver Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Jurassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks
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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 Harshaw District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABM CLIPPING FILE 1919

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER F C 1915 USGS BULL 582 P.278

  • Deposit

    USBM CORONADO NATIONAL FOREST STUDY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-JUL-93 ADMR U.S. Bureau of Mines

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

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