Little Helvetia Mine, Tiptop Mine group (Tiptop Camp prospects/mines), Tiptop Mountain, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Little Helvetia Mine | Mine |
| Tiptop Mine group (Tiptop Camp prospects/mines) | - not defined - |
| Tiptop Mountain | Mountain |
| Helvetia | Town (Former) |
| Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District | Mining District |
| Pima County | County |
| Arizona | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
31° North , 110° West (est.)
Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.
Margin of Error:
~1km
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Ref.: Stevens, J.H. (1904) The Copper Handbook, Vol. IV.
Stevens, J.H. (1905) The Copper Handbook, Vol. V.
Stevens, J.H. (1906 [1907 ?]) The Copper Handbook, Vol. VI.
Schrader, F.C. (1915) Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, with contributions by J.M. Hill: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 582, 373 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:125,000: 120-124.
Creasey, S.C. & G.L. Quick (1955), Copper deposits of part of Helvetia mining district, Pima County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 1027-F: 320.
Keith, Stanton B. (1974), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, Arizona: 129 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
A Cu-Ag-Au mine located in the NE ¼ sec. 15, T.18S., R.15E. Owned at times, or in part, by the Tip Top Copper Co.; American Smelting & Refining Co. (ASARCO); Chamrod; Forbes; Mattingly; Sierra Mining & Ranching Co.; Tip Top Mining Co.; and the D. & P. Mining Co.
Mineralization is irregular pockets, stringers, and pyrometasomatic replacement orebodies, mostly oxidized, with copper minerals, often associated with quartz stringers and seams in shattered, faulted, silicified, and silicated Paleozoic limestone close to a contact with underlying Paleozoic quartzite in a thrust-faulted klippe.
Workings include shallow shafts, tunnels and open cuts.
List of minerals for each chemical element
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Mexico
- Sierra Madre OccidentalMountain Range
North AmericaContinent
- Sonoran DesertDesert
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Basin and Range BasinsBasin
- Mazatzal DomainDomain
- Southern Basin and RangeWide Rift
USA
- Arizona
- Santa Rita MountainsMountain Range
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