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Alta Mine

Past Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10210677
MRDS ID M899948
MAS/MILS ID 0040230015
Record type Site
Current site name Alta Mine
Alternate or previous names Coronado Nf Patagonia Unit
Related records 10048359

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.71817, 31.46154 (WGS84)
Elevation 1559
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 04 C W2 Arizona

Commodities

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

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -110.71817, 31.46154
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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
Year of first production 1877

Mining district

District name Harshaw District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F. C., 1915, USGS BULL 582, P. 271-272.

  • Deposit

    USBM STAFF, 1994, USBM OFR MLA XX-94.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE MINE HAS BEEN RECLAIMED AND THE SHAFT BULLDOZED OVER.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 03-FEB-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.

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.