DMMR Reference Material Listing

Circular No. 63 April, 1996, revised February 2011

The department maintains a reference library of mineral and mining information including a mine map library (hard copy and microfilm), government publications, periodicals, and unpublished masters and doctorate theses.

Unpublished File Data

Our files contain unpublished information collected over the years by our mining engineers and staff. Many of the files contain data of historical significance, dating as far back as the late 1800's, as well as mining significance. This is the premier source of information about mining activity, past and present, in Arizona.

• Files on active mines and mining companies
• Over 4,400 mine and prospect files
• Files on mineral commodities, including metallic and nonmetallic
• Mine maps library (hard copy and microfilm)
• DMMR-compiled Mineral Industry Location System (AzMILS) containing commodity and reference data for plus 10,000 sites, includes location, name, and commodity indexes and map plots
• Master and doctorate theses on Arizona mining properties
• Exploration and mining data on Arizona and other properties from the following individual's and companies' files and map collections:
  • Kelsey Boltz
  • Budge Mining Ltd.
  • Cambior Exploration USA Inc. (Arizona only, inc. Westmont data)
  • Compass Minerals (West Oatman Project)
  • G.M. Colvocoresses
  • W.H. Crutchfield, Jr.
  • Grover Heinrichs
  • Walter Heinrichs, GEOX
  • Fred Hohn
  • John Kinnison
  • D. K. Martin
  • Richard Mieritz
  • Roland Mulchay
  • E. N. Pennybaker
  • Reconstruction Finance Corp.
  • Jim Sell
  • Unocal (Anderson Mine)
  • and other collections
• Photo archives of over 6,000 images, including the A.L. Flagg Collection.

Government Publications

• DMMR commodity reports on asbestos, fluorspar, molybdenum, industrial minerals, etc.
• DMMR directories and circulars including the Directory of Active Mines, Primary Copper Industry of Arizona, and Laws and Regulations Governing Mineral Rights in Arizona and others.
• Arizona Revised Statutes, including Arizona Mining Code
• Arizona Geological Survey (and predecessors Arizona Bureau of Mines / Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology) bulletins, circulars, special reports, etc.
• USGS Mineral Resources of the United States, 1883 to 1931
• U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Yearbook, 1932 to present (successor to Mineral Resources of US above)
• U.S. Bureau of Mines Bulletins, Mineral Land Assessment Open File Reports, Information Circulars (IC) and Reports of Investigations (RI), emphasizing those pertinent to Arizona
• U.S. Geological Survey Bulletins, Professional Papers and Circulars, emphasizing those pertinent to Arizona
• U.S. Dept. of Energy (formerly Atomic Energy Commission or AEC) reports on uranium mineralization in Arizona

Government Maps

• DMMR AZ Mineral Industry Location System (AZMILS) maps showing mineral deposits by county
• USGS topographic maps 7.5' and 15'
• USGS AMS 1 x 2 degree
• USGS map series including:
• GQ - Geologic Quadrangles
• MR - Mineral Investigations Resource
• MF - Misc. Investigations Field Studies
• GP - Geophysical Investigations
• OM - Oil and Gas Investigations
• I - Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations
• Arizona Geological Survey (and predecessors) geologic, contributed, open file, and miscellaneous map series.

Other Publications

• Arizona Geological Society Digests, 2-20
• Arizona Geological Society Field Trip Guides and Guidebook
• Arizona Mining Journal, June 1917 through April 1946, all issues
• Copper Mines Handbook and successor Mines Register, most issues
• Engineering and Mining Journal (E&MJ), l909 to present, except 1934
• Pay Dirt, all issues
• Western Prospector and Miner, all issues
• Industrial Minerals Magazine, July 1988 to 2010
• Mining Engineering, 1949 to present, most issues
• Transactions of the AIME, Vol. 1, 1871 to Vol. 272, 1982,some coal issues missing
• Mining Congress Journal, 1944 to present
• Economic Geology, 1926 to present, most issues
• Current and past issues of other mining, prospecting, mineral, lapidary, mineral collecting, gemstones, and related periodicals.

Technical Publications

A reference library of technical publications that includes the following subjects:

• mineralogy
• geology
• prospecting
• ore deposits
• gemstones
• metallurgy
• mining methods
• assaying
• blasting
• specimen
• collecting
• surveying
• mineral economics
• reclamation
• permitting
• etc.