Daisy Mine

The Daisy Mine is a copper mine located in Pima county, Arizona at an elevation of 3,150 feet.

About the MRDS Data:

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

Name: Daisy Mine  

State:  Arizona

County:  Pima

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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