Buena Vista Mine

The Buena Vista Mine is a copper and silver mine located in Santa Cruz county, Arizona at an elevation of 4,800 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

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Site Name

Primary: Buena Vista Mine
Secondary: Goodview

Commodity

Primary: Copper
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Lead
Tertiary: Molybdenum

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

Type: Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: Maloney, Black Mountain Mining Co.

Owner Name: Jarnagin And Bopp
Years: 1958 -

Production

Year: 1898
Time Period: 1897-1898
Material type: ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^28% Cu, 20 Oz/T Ag, $2/T Au
Year: 1958
Time Period: 1895-1958
Material type: ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^3% Cu, 1 Oz/T Ag, Minor Au And

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Year First Production: 1915
Year Last Production: 1958
Discovery Year: 1895
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: IRREGULAR

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: Ne Fault Or Shear Zone; Crushed Rock In Shear Zone

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Minor Oxidation

Rocks

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Covellite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite

Comments

Comment (Workings): EXTENSIVE TUNNEL OPERATIONS AND WINZES. 3 TUNNELS BETWEE4700 AND 5000 FT ELEVATION, 2 OF WHICH ARE DRIFTS ON MAIN VEIN AND OTHER IS A CROSSCUT ON A PARALLEL VEIN.

Comment (Geology): SMALL AMOUNTS OF AZURITE AND MALACHITE FOUND IN GOUGE MATERIAL. WALL ROCK IS SHEARED, ALTERED AND CONTAINS DISSEMINATED PYRITE.

Comment (Deposit): THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M001429 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS. DATA ALSO FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D003045 OF J. WILLIAM HASLER WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Comment (Deposit): ORE FOUND NEAR WALLS OF VEIN, ESPECIALLY HANGING WALL.

Comment (Production): PRODUCED INTERMITTENTLY FROM 1895-1958.

Comment (Development): PREOUS OWNERS/OPERATORS INCLUDE BANCO DEL ORO MINING CO (1910), GOODVIEW MINING ANMILLING CO, KINO COPPER CO, CORONADO MINES, INC, GRAYBILL AND JARNAGIN, DUNHAM AANEZ, JARNAGIN AND BOPP, BLACK MOUNTAIN MINING CO

Comment (Location): 1/2 MI ESE OF BENNETT MINE, 1/8 MI SW OF KING MINE. INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Comment (Location): Latitude/longitude taken from only working visible on Google Earth in the PLSS listed for this property. It is possible that the main workings are in NWSESW instead as more disturbance is visible there.

Comment (General): Minor information added to old MRDS record from old MAS record. This record was more complete.

References

Reference (Deposit): KEITH, 1975, ABM BULL 191.

Reference (Deposit): SCHRADER, 1915, USGS BULL 582.

Reference (Deposit): SCHRADER AND HILL,910, USGS BULL 430.

Reference (Deposit): ABGMT FILE DATA, STANTON B. KEITH.

Reference (Deposit): ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.

Reference (Deposit): U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 658-E.

Reference (Other Database): DMEA

Reference (Other Database): CIMRI

Reference (Production): KEITH, 1975; SCHRADER, 1915; PP 658-E.

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