Mine detail: Gold-Copper Mines Co.

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Location: Gila County, Arizona, United States, North America
Lat / long: 33.07315, -110.78458
dep_id: 10026849
mrds_id: M000505
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Gold
orebody_fm: LINEAR
alteration: In A Number Of Places Altered Igneous Rock Forms The South Wall Of The Main Vein. In The Hand Specimen This Is A Fine-Grained Dull-Green Rock Speckled With Numerous Small White Feldspar Phenocrysts. It Is An Aggregate Of Chlorite, Epidote, Residual Bits Of Feldspar, And Indeterminate Alteration Products. The Rock Is Probably An Altered Intrusive Andesite, Perhaps Related To The Dioritic Dikes That Are Common In This Region.
Reporter: Gere, W., Hall, R. K. (Creasey, S. C.)
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_type: Andesite
References:
  • ROSS, C. P., 1925 , ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SADDLE MOUNTAIN AND BANNER MINING DESTRICTS, ARIZONA; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 771
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