The Daisy Mine is a copper mine located in Pima county, Arizona at an elevation of 3,150 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 3,150 Feet (960 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 31.98611, -111.07722
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Daisy Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Daisy Mine
Secondary: Daisy Shaft
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Gold
Tertiary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Arizona
County: Pima
District: Pima District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Year: 1963
Time Period: 1957-1963
Material type: ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^0.8% Cu, 0.1oz/Tag, Some Zn, Pb
Year: 1962
Time Period: 1954-1962
Material type: ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^3% Cu, 0.5 Oz/Tag, Some Zn, Pb
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: M
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: ROUGHLY BANDED, MANTO
Structure
Type: L
Description: Mineral Hill Fault
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Partly Oxidized
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Magnetite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Bornite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M050385 WITH RECORD D000799 OF JAN WILT AND JAMES ELLIOT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON, T.G. THEODORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Commodity): OXIDE AND SULFIDE ORE BODY FOUND BY GEOPHYSICAL METHODS
Comment (Workings): SHAFT AND OPEN PIT
Comment (Geology): DEPOSIT IS ROUGHLY BANDED AND ZONED
References
Reference (Deposit): KEITH, 1974, ABM BULL 189, P. 134
Reference (Deposit): MINING ENGINEERING, JUNE 1963, P. 49
Reference (Deposit): COOPER, 1960, USGS BULL 1112-C
Reference (Deposit): MACKENZIE, 1959, AZ GEOL SOC, SOUTHERN AZ GUIDEBOOK II, P. 193-194
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Production): KEITH, 1974
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