Las Guijas District

Past Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000204
MRDS ID D000811
Record type District
Current site name Las Guijas District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.36739, 31.66683 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cerro Colorado(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Brawley Wash(hydrologic unit)

Santa Cruz(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Gold Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.36739, 31.66683

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name LAS GUIJAS DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    WILSON., E.D., 1941, ARIZ. UNIV. BULL. VOL. 12, NO. 2.

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S., 1974, ABM BULLETIN 189.

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.