Arizona-Tonopah Mine

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

Name: Arizona-Tonopah Mine  

State:  Arizona

County:  Pima

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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