Mine detail: Pacific Mine

Previously called 'Hearst Shaft, Gillett Shaft, Thayer Shaft: Patented ClaimsPacificSouth Extension PacificPacific No. 2,'

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Location

Lat / long:

32.85094, -108.24256

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver, Copper
Secondary:	Zinc, Lead
Ore:	Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite
Orebody form:	PINCH AND SWELL
Discovery year:	1860

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1865
Last production ended:	1955

Geology

Host type:	Diorite,Andesite
Associated type:	Monzonite,Diorite,Andesite
Alteration processes:	Propylitization, Sericitization

References

MRDS	D009780
DEP	10013471
Reference	{Deposit:: LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L. C., AND GORDON, C. H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 297-299}{Deposit:: PAIGE, S., 1911 USGS BULL 470, P. 109-118}{Deposit:: BUSH, F. V., 1915 MINING AND ENGINEERING WORLD, VOL 42, NO 4, P. 165-168}{Deposit:: ANDERSON, E. C., 1957 NMBMMR BULL 39, P. 70-71}{Deposit:: JONES, W. R., MOORE, S. L., AND PRATT, W. P., 1970 USGS GEOLOGIC MAP, GQ-865}{Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA}
Reporter	Menzie, David, Seanor, Clint E. (Worl, Ron), Bolm, Karen S.