| Lat / long: | 32.88567, -108.2384 |
| Primary: | Copper, Zinc, Silver |
| Secondary: | Gold, Bismuth, Arsenic |
| Ore: | Argentite, Bismuthinite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Covellite, Silver, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite |
| Gangue: | Calcite, Garnet, Goethite, Hematite, Kaolinite, Limonite, Magnetite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Rhodonite, Sericite |
| Orebody form: | LENSES |
| Discovery year: | 1948 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | None |
| Development status: | Prospect |
| Host rock: | Lake Valley;Oswaldo;Syrena;Beartooth |
| Host type: | Limestone |
| Associated rock: | Pinos Altos Quartz Monzonite Stock; |
| Associated type: | Diorite |
| Alteration processes: | Outer 10 To 20 Ft Of Quartz Monzonite Pluton Is A Selvage Of Propylitic Or Argillic Alteration. Diorite Stocks On Margin Of Quartz Monzonite Pluton Are Pervasively Potassic-Altered. Lake Valley, Oswaldo And Syrena Limestones Metamorphosed To Marble. Clastics In Syrena Fm Metamorphosed To Wollastonite-Diopside-Tremolite Hornfels. Beartooth Sandstone Annealed To Quartzite. |
| MRDS | D009781 |
| DEP | 10013472 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: FINNEL, T. L., 1976 USGS MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP, MF-779}{Deposit:: MCKNIGHT, J. F., AND FELLOWS, M. L., 1978 ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY DIGEST, VOL 11, P. 1-8}{Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, JUNE 1979, VOL 180, NO 6, P. 35, 39}{Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA}{Deposit:: OSTERBERG, M.W., ET. AL., 1992, ORE CONTROLS AT THE CYPRUS PINOS ALTOS CU ZN AG SKARN DEPOSIT, NEW MEXICO: SME/AIME PREPRINT 92-13, 11 P.}{Deposit:: OSTERBERG, M. AND MULLER, P., 1994, GEOLOGY OF THE CYPRUS PINOS ALTOS DEPOSIT: CYPRUS-AMAX UNPUBLISHED REPORT, 29 P.}{Production:: OSTERBERG AND MULLER (1994), P. 3}{Reserve-Resource:: (1,2) OSTERBERG AND MULLER (1994) P. 3-4.} |
| Reporter | Menzie, David, Long, Keith R. |