Mine detail: Apache Trail Mine

Previously called 'ClaimApache Trail'

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Location

Lat / long:

32.60068, -108.35673

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Silver, Gold, Bismuth
Tertiary:	Uranium, Lead
Ore:	Chrysocolla, Copper, Galena, Gold, Torbernite
Gangue:	Fluorite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz, Specularite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1890

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1940

Geology

Host type:	Diabase
Associated rock:	Burro Mountain Granite
Associated type:	Diabase
Structure:	Deposits Occur Along The N 80 W Striking Apache Trail Fault.
Alteration processes:	Sericitization Of The Granite And Chloritization Of The Diabase.

References

MRDS	D001963
DEP	10009214
Reference	{Deposit:: COOPER, J. R., 1962, BISMUTH OF U.S.: USGS MR - 22}{Deposit:: LOVERING, T.G., 1956 USGS BULL 1009-L, P. 341-344}{Deposit:: GILLERMAN, E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 87-89}{Deposit:: HEDLUND, D.C., 1978 USGS MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1041}{Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA}
Reporter	Miller, M. H., Menzie, David