Seven-and-a-half prior to publishing this blog "MesaZona" in February 2015, your local periodista (Spanish word for journalist) took the time to register the trade name SONORIZONA in The State of Arizona, certified on 08/30/2007 by Jan Brewer who was then The Secretary of State. At that tenuous time, I lived for six months driving going back-and-forth between Nogales, AZ and Puerto Penasco, MX. Apart from Rocky Point, a port located on The Sea of Cortez, the land-locked territory and geology of the Sonoran Desert on both sides of the border were remarkably the same through three different crossing points.
For so many good reasons, it is time to renew that trademark after those intervening years to re-discover, to renew, to re-connect and to expand that vision of the transnational zone SONORIZONA to bridge the man-made borders that divide the United States of America and the United States of Mexico.
Where to start? Readers of this blog might want to take a look at a number of featured posts using the search box at the top left for The Sun Corridor .
Here in Mesa - at the IDEA Museum - there's an interactive exhibit "Sonoran Safari" (image to be uploaded and inserted here later)
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The Sonoran Desert of Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, hosts some of the wildest and most intriguing geology in the Southwest. In March 1990, the Geological Society of America’s Cordilleran Section met in Tucson, Arizona, to review fresh geologic research and to visit a broad suite of geologic settings.
The field trip guides from 19 field excursions – 5 in north-central Sonora, Mexico, and 14 in central and southern Arizona – are reproduced in the Arizona Geological Survey’s Special Paper #7, Geologic Excursions through the Sonoran Desert Region, Arizona and Sonora’.
For a link to free download, see us at our new blog space http://blog.azgs.arizona.edu
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Sonora Mexico, cut off on this map, is La Gran Mineria
The Arizona Mining Review is underwritten by the Mining Foundation of the Southwest. ---- Posted M. Conway
For so many good reasons, it is time to renew that trademark after those intervening years to re-discover, to renew, to re-connect and to expand that vision of the transnational zone SONORIZONA to bridge the man-made borders that divide the United States of America and the United States of Mexico.
Where to start? Readers of this blog might want to take a look at a number of featured posts using the search box at the top left for The Sun Corridor .
Here in Mesa - at the IDEA Museum - there's an interactive exhibit "Sonoran Safari" (image to be uploaded and inserted here later)
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Saturday, March 17, 2018
Sonoran Desert field trip guides
The Sonoran Desert of Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, hosts some of the wildest and most intriguing geology in the Southwest. In March 1990, the Geological Society of America’s Cordilleran Section met in Tucson, Arizona, to review fresh geologic research and to visit a broad suite of geologic settings.The field trip guides from 19 field excursions – 5 in north-central Sonora, Mexico, and 14 in central and southern Arizona – are reproduced in the Arizona Geological Survey’s Special Paper #7, Geologic Excursions through the Sonoran Desert Region, Arizona and Sonora’.
For a link to free download, see us at our new blog space http://blog.azgs.arizona.edu
Sonora Mexico, cut off on this map, is La Gran Mineria
Arizona remains the #2 state in nonfuel mineral production in the U.S.
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The Taylor Zn-Pb-Ag deposit represents a world-class mineral find.
"On 26 March 2018, Arizona Mining’s Don Taylor, discoverer of the world-class Taylor zinc-lead-silver deposit in the Patagonia Mountains of southeastern Arizona, spoke with AZGS for the 44th episode of the Arizona Mining Review e-Video Magazine.
You can view that 11-minute interview at our AZGS Youtube channel.
Mining in the Patagonia Mountains. In the 1870s, silver was discovered in the Patagonia Mountains of southeastern Arizona. From the 1880s to the 1950s, mining was a pillar of the economy and society of southern Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Mining operations continued through World War II - manganese was mined in support of the war effort - but by 1964 the first pulse of mining in the Patagonia Mountains ended.
The Taylor Zn-Pb-Ag Discovery. In the early 2000s, Wildcat Mining, Inc., was drilling a silver-lead deposit near Harshaw, Arizona, once a bustling mining town turned ghost town. In 2010, exploration geologist Don Taylor was brought on to guide exploration. It was then he discovered the large Taylor Zn-Pb-Ag deposit in the Patagonia Mining District.
For this discovery, Don Taylor, now Chief Operating Officer of Arizona Mining, Inc., was awarded the prestigious Thayer Lindsley award for ‘Best Global Discovery’ at the 2018 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Convention in Toronto, Canada.
Read more >> http://blog.azgs.arizona.edu/blog
For additional information on the Hermosa project, which includes both the Taylor zinc-lead-silver deposit and the Central silver-manganese-zinc manto oxide deposit, see the Arizona Mining website.The Arizona Mining Review is underwritten by the Mining Foundation of the Southwest. ---- Posted M. Conway
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Thursday, March 08, 2018
Shaking it up with AZGS’ Earthquake Fault Videos
"As part of our earthquake preparedness program, ‘Arizona has Earthquakes’, we've produced a suite of video shorts showcasing active fault systems in Arizona. Our objective: to inform the Arizona public and decision-makers of the nature, magnitude and frequency of earthquakes impacting Arizona."For video titles, viewership and links see the post at this new blog site:
