The Buzzard's Shadow Mine is a gold mine located in Greenlee county, Arizona at an elevation of 4,800 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: 4,800 Feet (1,463 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 33.07167, -109.40667
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Buzzard's Shadow Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Buzzard's Shadow Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Manganese
Secondary: Copper
Location
State: Arizona
County: Greenlee
District: Copper Mountain District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: D. M. Cansler
Years: 1941 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1904
Year Last Production: 1915
Discovery Year: 1901
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR, IRREGULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Ne Trending Granite Porphyry Dikes; Alternating Sandstone And Shale Beds Form Irregular Areas Almost Entirely Surrounded By Morenci Granite Porphyry
Type: L
Description: South Of Zone Between Coronado Ridge And Gold Gulch Fault Blocks
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Distinct Contact Metamorphic Zone Between Limestones And Porphyry Associated With A Hardening Of Sedimentary Layers And Substantial Development Of Epidote And Magnetite
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age in Years: 55.200000+-1.700000
Age Young: Tertiary
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Epidote
Gangue: Orthoclase
Gangue: Magnetite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Deposit): WELL-DEFINED FISSURE VEIN LIES BETWEEN CRUSHED LIMESTONE STAINED BY MANGANESE IN THE HANGING WALL AND PORPHYRY IN THE FOOT WALL.
Comment (Workings): SEVERAL SHAFTS, TUNNELS, STOPES, DRIFTS; FREE MILLING GOLD ORE ON SURFACE.
Comment (Location): 0.5 MILES NW OF MOUTH OF PINKARD GULCH AT HEAD OF SMALL GULCH DRAINING DIRECTLY INTO EAGLE CREEK; NEXT GULCH NORTH OF GOLD GULCH ON EAST SIDE OF EAGLE CREEK. INFO FROM LAND.ST :01; 49 ? (1973)
Comment (Development): OPERATORS INCLUDED HOME COPPER CO, JOHN C. MOLDER, NEW YORK AND ARIZONA GOLD AND COPPER CO, G.I. PACE
Comment (Geology): LONGFELLOW LIMESTONES ARE EXTENSIVELY EXPOSED IN THIS REGION. MORENCI PORPHYRY IS NOT MUCH ALTERRED BUT IS GREATLY DISINTEGRATED. PRINCIPAL REGIONAL PORPHYRITIC INTRUSIONS PARALLEL PLANES OF SEDIMENTATION WHICH DIP 10-30 SW. REGIONAL FAULTING PRIOR TO INTRUSION AND MINERALIZATION.
Comment (Deposit): 12 CLAIMS PATENTED BY HOME COPPER CO (1901). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Deposit): STEVENS, H.J., 1912-1913, THE COPPER HANDBOOK V. XI, P. 444, HOME COPPER CO.
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.
Reference (Deposit): STEVENS, H.J., 1911, THE COPPER HANDBOOK, V. X, P. 1293-1294, NEW YORK-ARIZONA GOLD AND COPPER CO.
Reference (Deposit): USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 43 (1905).
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