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Big Steve

Past Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Uranium
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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. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10283344
MAS/MILS ID 0040230114
Record type Site
Current site name Big Steve
Alternate or previous names Big Steve Mine, Coronado Nf Mla

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -111.09098, 31.37514 (WGS84)
Elevation 1366
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

Pena Blanca Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Atascosa Mountains(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 024 S 012 E 02 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -111.09098, 31.37514
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ADIT NOT FOUND IN 1994. GEOLOGY/MINERALIZATION SIMILAR TO NEARBY WHITE OAK MINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Pajarito

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Clarke
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S.B., 1975, AZBM BULL 191, P. 72.

  • Deposit

    ARBM CARD FILE SANTA CRUZ CTY

  • Deposit

    USBM STAFF, 1994, USBM OFR MLA XX-94, P. A109-110.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 05-AUG-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.