The Phoenix Mine is a lead and silver mine located in Santa Cruz county, Arizona at an elevation of 5,299 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: 5,299 Feet (1,615 Meters)
Commodity: Lead, Silver
Lat, Long: 31.42306, -110.69528
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Phoenix Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Phoenix Mine
Secondary: Hay Property
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Zinc
Tertiary: Gold
Location
State: Arizona
County: Santa Cruz
District: Harshaw District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Owner Name: George R. Hay
Years: 1942 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1945
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: STREAKS
Structure
Type: R
Description: Croppings Of Manganese And Iron Oxides, Kaolin And Argentiferous Galena Extend Interruptedly Along Contact Fissure Of Mowry Fault For 1/2 Mile Or More
Type: L
Description: Deposits Formed By Same Intrusive Dike Of Quartz Monzonite That Uptilted Limestone Beds Containing The Mowry Deposits; Pyroxene Monzonite Similarly Uptilted, Creating Parallel Fractures Along Which Mineralization Occurred
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Limestone Is Highly Sericitized, Brecciated And Stained With Mn And Fe; Feldspars Are Greatly Kaolinized And Altered To Epidote
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Paleocene
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: ORE VALUES AVERAGED 13.9% PB, 1.5 OZ./TON AG, .16 OZ/TON AU
Materials
Ore: Lead
Comments
Comment (Deposit): EXTENSIVE DEPOSIT, APPROXIMATELY 300 BY 2000 FT., CONSISTS OF PARALLEL STREAKS OF ORE, FROM A FEW INCHES TO SEVERAL FT IN WIDTH
Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: 1940'S
Comment (Location): 1.5 MILES SE OF AMERICAN PEAK, ADJOINING MOWRY MINE PROPERTY TO EAST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)
Comment (Production): NO PRODUCTION DATA AVAILABLE
Comment (Development): CLAIMS LOCATED AS EXPLORATION PROSPECTS IN 1940'S; PROPERTY COMPRISES 5 UNPATENTED CLAIMS
Comment (Workings): NO UNDERGROUND WORKINGS; NUMEROUS OPEN CUTS AND SHALLOW SHAFTS EXPOSE OUTCROPS OF ORE ON SURFACE (APPROXIMATELY 15 OPEN CUTS)
Comment (Geology): INTRUSION OF QUARTZ MONZONITE DIKE CREATED PARALLEL FRACTURES THROUGH WHICH LEAD SOLUTIONS REACHED THE SURFACE AND PRECIPITATED AS CARBONATES; WORKINGS LOCATED NEAR SECTION OF E-W MOWRY FAULT THAT HAS BEEN DISPLACED FROM SECTION OF FAULT ON MOWRY MINE PROPERTY BY THE N-S EAST END FAULT
References
Reference (Deposit): USBM FILES, PHOENIX MINE
Reference (Deposit): ADMR FILE DATA, PHOENIX MINE
Reference (Deposit): SMITH, GEORGE E., 1956 THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MOWRY MINE AREA, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 44 PP.
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 582, P. 296-306
Reference (Deposit): USGS MAP I-762 (1=48000)
Reference (Deposit): PROUT, J.W., 1907, THE SILVER-LEAD DEPOSITS OF THE MOWRY MINE, MOWRY, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 18 PP.
Reference (Deposit): BRINSMADE, R.B., 1907, LEAD-SILVER DEPOSITS OF MOWRY, ARIZONA; MINES AND MINERALS, VOL. 27, NO. 12, P. 529-531
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