Three Star Prospect

Occurrence in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities 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. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10210344
MAS/MILS ID 0040230381
Record type Site
Current site name Three Star Prospect
Alternate or previous names Part of Wandering Jew Group, Riquesa, Coronado Nf, Part 12, Santa Rita Mt, Unit, Az, Usbm Ofr Mla 11-94.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.86678, 31.62653 (WGS84)
Elevation 1630
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

Mount Wrightson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fort Huachuca(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 021 S 014 E 01 SWSESW Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Secondary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -110.86678, 31.62653

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tyndall

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Bond; Laguna, Ramon
    Year 1932

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS MT WRIGHTSON QUAD

  • Deposit

    AZBM CLIPPING FILE

  • Deposit

    AZBM CARD FILE SANTA CRUZ CTY.

  • Deposit

    USBM FIELD NOTES

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER F C 1915 USGS BULL 582 P206

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THREE STAR IS A PATENTED CLAIM JUST SOUTH OF THESE PROSPECTS AND IS PART OF THE WANDERING JEW GROUP. IT IS UNCLEAR IF THIS MILS LOC REPRESENTS THE PATENTED CLAIM OR THE PROSPECTS TO THE NORTH.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-OCT-1994 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) 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.