The Arizona-Tonopah Mine is a copper, lead, and silver mine located in Pima county, Arizona at an elevation of 2,749 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: 2,749 Feet (838 Meters)
Commodity: Copper, Lead, Silver
Lat, Long: 32.14667, -111.04750
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Arizona-Tonopah Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Arizona-Tonopah Mine
Secondary: Beehive Mine
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Location
State: Arizona
County: Pima
District: Saginaw Hill 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
Owner Name: George Ankers, 1920, A. J. Harshberger, Buckeye State Mining Co., 1929
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1925
Year Last Production: 1929
Discovery Method: Unknown
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: SPOTTY
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Argillitic, Oxidized
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Galena
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Comments
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)
Comment (Commodity): SULFIDES MAY BE OF LATE MAGMATIC ORIGIN RATHER THAN SUPERPOSED HYDROTHERMAL
Comment (Deposit): SHAFT OPEN, NO SIGN OF FRACTURE ZONE AT SHAFT COLLAR. SHRARED ZONE FOUND AT PROSPECT ADIT 30 METERS BELOW BEEHIVE PEAK. WEAKLY DISSEMINATED PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE WITHIN RHYOLITE
Comment (Workings): SHAFT REPORTED AT 145 FEET IN 1920
Comment (Geology): RHYOLITE IS UNALTERED, ARKOSE IS SILICIFIED
References
Reference (Deposit): ALLEN, M.A. 1920, NOTES ON THE SOUTHERN SECTION OF THE AMOLE DISTRICT: ABM BULL. 106
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT 189, P. 84
Reference (Deposit): KINNWON, J.E., 1958, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN AMOLE DISTRICT, U.A.M.S. THESIS
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