The Edna Mine Group is a tungsten mine located in Santa Cruz 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: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 31.35694, -110.76861
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Edna Mine Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Edna Mine Group
Secondary: Martha Washington
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Arizona
County: Santa Cruz
District: Patagonia District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Year: 1971
Time Period: 1968-1971
Material type: W03 ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^1.3% W03
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1914
Year Last Production: 1971
Discovery Year: 1914
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: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: POCKETS
Structure
Type: R
Description: E-W & Ne-Trending Quartz Veins And Associated Bands Of Crushed, Mineralized Rock In Fault Fissures Cutting Diorite And Quartz Monzonite.
Type: L
Description: Shear Zone Cutting Granite
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Copper
Ore: Molybdenite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M000232 WITH RECORD M030401 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Development): PREVIOUS OWNERS INCLUDE JULIO, CORONADO MINES INC, DISCOVERY PROCESS INC, RANDALL
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979
Comment (Production): KNOWN AND DEVELOPED PRIOR TO 1914 BUT PRODUCED MAINLY IN 1968-1971.
Comment (Deposit): QUARTZ & GOUGE POCKETS HAVE ORE MINERALS, SCHEELITE SPORADIC, CU & MO MINERALS MINOR.
Comment (Workings): ADIT & OPEN CUT OPERATIONS
References
Reference (Deposit): KEITH, 1975, ABM BULL 191, P. 7.6
Reference (Deposit): DALE ET AL, 1960, USBM RI 5650.
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT FILE DATA.
Reference (Deposit): USBM FILES, EDNA GROUP.
Reference (Deposit): SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Production): KEITH, 1975.
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