Buckeye Property

Past Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodity Copper
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. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Reserves and resources
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10259282
MRDS ID M899870
MAS/MILS ID 0040210203
Record type Site
Current site name Buckeye Property
Alternate or previous names Troy Manhattan Copper Co Prop, Buckeye East
Related records 10048307

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -110.91149, 33.13729 (WGS84)
Elevation 1088
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hot Tamale Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Globe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

Bureau of Land Management AZ BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 003 S 014 E 27 SW Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -110.91149, 33.13729

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant Yes

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Via,Clarence
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1979
  • Type Owner
    Owner Scott, H. R.
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1940
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
    Interest 100
    Home office New York
    Year 1987

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1988
    Demonstrated 20000000mt ore
    Inferred 16000000mt ore
    Total resources 36000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Copper Cu 0.65 wt-pct Copper Major 1988

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    ARIZONA MINING ASSOC., ARIZONA WILDERNESS 1988, REPORT A 23

  • Reserve-Resource

    TO CONGRESS.

  • Reserve-Resource

    THE PRIMARY COPPER INDUSTRY OF ARIZONA IN 1987, DMMR.

  • Reserve-Resource

    THE PRIMARY COPPER INDUSTRY OF ARIZONA IN 1991, DMMR.

  • Deposit

    USGS SONORA QUAD

  • Deposit

    ADMR TROY MINE FILE

  • Deposit

    RANSOME,F L RAY FOLIO 1923 P 22

  • Deposit

    ADMR U FILE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 24-SEP-96 ADMR U.S. Bureau of Mines

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:

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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