The Minnesota Mine is a copper mine located in Santa Cruz county, Arizona at an elevation of 4,800 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: 4,800 Feet (1,463 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 31.38861, -110.75528
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Minnesota Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Minnesota Mine
Secondary: Marche Mine
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
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.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: W. W. Todd And Joe Bostwick 53)
Years: 1952 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1952
Year Last Production: 1953
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
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Deposits Occur In Form Of Subordinate Veins, Lenses, Stringers, And Seams In Fissures, Joints, Sheeting Planes, And Other Fractures In Quartz Monzonite And Diorite
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Strong Potassic Alteration; Granodiorite Is Highly Shattered, Sheeted, And Crushed
Rocks
Name: Hornblendite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Malachite
Comments
Comment (Development): DEVELOPMENT BEGAN AS EARLY AS 1900
Comment (Workings): TWO TUNNEL DRIFTS DRIVEN IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE GULCH.THE SOUTHERLY TUNNEL IS 90 FEET IN LENGTH.
Comment (Location): IN PROVIDENCIA CANYON; 1 1/4 MILES EAST OF GOLDEN ROSE MINE; 4.0 MILES NW OF WASHINGTON CAMP ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)
Comment (Commodity): NO SULPHIDES NOTED
References
Reference (Deposit): USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA
Reference (Deposit): USBM FILE DATA-CLUSTER #22, MINNESOTA MINE
Reference (Deposit): SCHRADER, F.C., 1915, USGS BULL, 582, P.316
Reference (Deposit): SIMONS, FRANK S 1974 GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF THE NOGALES AND LOCHIEL QUADRANGLES, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; USGS MAP I-762 (1=48000)
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