Mine detail: Pat Alunite

Previously called 'Patagonia PropertyPat Property'

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Location

Lat / long:

31.4557, -110.75068

Resource(B)

Primary:	Aluminum, Potassium
Tertiary:	Talc-Soapstone, Kaolin
Ore:	Alunite
Gangue:	Kaolinite, Sericite
Orebody form:	HIGHLY IRREGULAR AND DISCONTINUOUS ELONGATED BLANKET OR LENS
Discovery year:	1909

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite,Andesite
Associated rock:	Comoro Granite;Mt. Wrightson Formation;
Associated type:	Monzonite
Tectonic:	Basin And Range
Alteration processes:	Phyllic, Sericitic

References

MRDS	D002154
DEP	10009276
Reference	{Deposit:: SCHRADER 1913A; 1913B.}{Deposit:: SCHRADER, 1915, P. 361-364.}{Deposit:: SIMONS, 1974 (MAP).}{Deposit:: SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.}{Deposit:: 1897 DIREXPL MANY C *. METAL PROD.}{Deposit:: SCHRADER, 1913, 1915; SIMONS, 1974 (MAP).}{Deposit:: 1909 GEOLMAP F. C. SCHRADER PUB. REPTS.}{Deposit:: 1960 GEOLMAP F. S. SIMONS PUB. MAP}{Deposit:: PROJECT 9350 - 01393 ALUNITE RESOURCES}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Reserve-Resource:: SAWYER AND OTHERS, 1992.}
Reporter	Hall, Robert B., Orris, Greta J.