Pima District

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000891
MRDS ID K003361
Record type District
Current site name Pima District
Alternate or previous names San Xavier Mine, Pima Mine, Mission

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.08399, 31.96682 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Twin Buttes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sells(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 58
USGS model code 18a
Deposit model name Porphyry Cu, skarn-related
Mark3 model number 9

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.08399, 31.96682

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name PIMA DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCKNIGHT, E.T., NEWMAN, W.L., AND HEYL, A.V., JR. (COMPILERS), 1962, ZINC IN THE UNITED STATES, EXCLUSIVE OF ALASKA AND HAWAII: USGS MINERAL INV. RESOURCE MAP MR-19, SEPARATE TEXT, 18 P.

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E.B., 1950, ARIZONA ZINC AND LEAD DEPOSITS: ARIZONA STAT BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 156, P. 39-51.

  • Deposit

    HUTTL, J.B., 1958, HOW SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION FOUND PIMA MINE: ENGR. AND MIN. JOUR., V. 159, NO. 3, P. 100-106.

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.