Guajolote Mine

The Guajolote Mine is a copper and silver mine located in Santa Cruz county, Arizona at an elevation of 5,801 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

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Site Name

Primary: Guajolote Mine
Secondary: Quajolote
Secondary: Bacon
Secondary: Gualota
Secondary: Four Metals Group

Commodity

Primary: Copper
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Gold

Location

State: Arizona
County: Santa Cruz
District: Patagonia 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.
Administrative Organization: Coronado National Forest

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Bacon Investment Co.
Years: 1938 -

Owner Name: Joe C. Bacon
Years: 1941 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1937
Year Last Production: 1941
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: TABULAR

Structure

Type: R
Description: E-W And Ne-Trending Quartz Veins And Associated Bands Of Crushed Mineralized Rock In Fault Fissures Cutting Diorite And Quartz Monzonite

Type: L
Description: Located Near Nw-Trending Inferred Guajolote Fault; Fault Shear Zone Is 200 Ft Wide

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Granodiorite Is Highly Shattered, Sheeted, And Crushed; Strong Potassic Alteration

Rocks

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age in Years: 58.000000+-5.000000
Age Young: Tertiary

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: ORE VALUES AVERAGED 2% CU, 3 OZ/T AG, 0.2 OZ/T AU

Materials

Ore: Copper
Ore: Pyrite

Comments

Comment (Location): AT GUAJOLOTE FLAT IN CORONADO NATIONAL FOREST; ABOUT 1.0 MILE SE OF PAYMASTER MINE. INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Comment (Deposit): SEE ALSO: FOUR METALS MINE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Comment (Development): CLAIM INCORPORATED INTO FOUR METALS GROUP OF 33 UNPATENTED CLAIMS; SPORADIC PRODUCTION IN LATE 1930'S AND 1940'S

Comment (Deposit): CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, AND COPPER CARBONATES OCCUR NEAR SURFACE IN A BANDED QUARTZ VEIN.

Comment (Workings): 1 SHAFT

Comment (Geology): SOURCE OR MINERALIZATION BELIEVED TO BE FROM CENTRAL PORTION OF PORPHYRITIC GRANODIORITE INTRUDING GUAJOLOTE FLAT. DEPOSITS IN REGION OCCUR IN FORM OF SUBORDINATE VEINS LENSES, STRINGERS, AND SEAMS IN FRACTURES, FISSURES, JOINTS, AND SHEETING PLANES IN ROCK.

References

Reference (Deposit): USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION DATA FILE.

Reference (Deposit): USBM FILE DATA-CLUSTER #22, GUAJOLOTE MINE.

Reference (Deposit): KEITH, S.B., 1975, ABM BULL. 191, P. 80.

Reference (Deposit): ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, GUAJOLOTE MINE.

Reference (Deposit): ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH.

Reference (Deposit): SCHRADER, F.C., 1915, USGS BULL. 582, P. 317-320 (FOUR METALS MINE).

Reference (Deposit): ADMR FILE DATA, FOUR METALS MINE.

Reference (Deposit): SIMONS, F.S., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF THE NOGALES AND LOCHIEL QUADRANGLES, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA: USGS MAP I-762 (1:48000).

Reference (Deposit): GRAYBEAL, F.T., 1972, THE PARTITION OF TRACE ELEMENTS AMONG COEXISTING MINERALS IN SOME LARAMIDE INTRUSIVE ROCKS IN ARIZONA: PHD. DISSERTATION, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, P. 36-43.

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