Azure Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Semiprecious Gemstone
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. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10199091
MRDS ID d011453
MAS/MILS ID 0350170151
Record type Site
Current site name Azure Mine
Alternate or previous names Tiffany Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -108.38172, 32.65732 (WGS84)
Elevation 1860
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wind Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-Mangas(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 019 S 015 W 15 NW New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Semiprecious Gemstone Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -108.38172, 32.65732

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Phelps Dodge Corp.
    Interest 100
    Home office Colorado
    Year 1979
  • Type Operator
    Owner James Hamilton Construction Co., Inc.
    Home office New Mexico

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NUMEROUS WORKINGS WITH OLD INDIAN WORKINGS

  • Deposit

    LARGEST TURQUOISE PRODUCER IN THE AREA

  • Deposit

    WILL BE COVERED BY PHELPS DODGE WASTE DUMPS BY 1980

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, ELLIOT NMBM BUL 83 PP49-51

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-83 New Mexico Bureau Of Mines And Mineral Resources New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.