| Lat / long: | 33.05982, -109.32121 |
| Primary: | Gold |
| Ore: | Gold |
| Gangue: | Gravel |
| Orebody form: | DISPERSED FLAKES IN STREAM GRAVELS |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Placer |
| Production size: | Small |
| Development status: | Producer |
| Host rock: | Gila Conglomerate |
| Host type: | Gravel,Conglomerate |
| Associated type: | Granite |
| Structure: | Fine Flakes Of Gold Recovered From Well-Graded Stream Gravels And From Coarse, Roughly Bedded Gila Conglomerate In The Hills Around Morenci And On The Se Slopes Of Copper King Mountain, Placer Gold Found In Sand Extensively Mixed With Relatively Unconsolidated Gravels Containing Volcanic Rocks, Granite, Limestone, And Quartz Porphyry |
| Tectonic: | Precipitous Gully Terrain; Erosion Has Produced Nearly Vertical Bluffs Of Gila Conglomerate |
| Alteration processes: | Surface Oxidation Of Gold-Bearing Veins In The Vicinity |
| MRDS | M001275 |
| DEP | 10026955 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: JOHNSON, M.G., 1972, PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 1355, P. 15.}{Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT SHEET 842.}{Deposit:: USGS PROF PAPER 43 (1905), P. 75-77, 212.}{Deposit:: BENNETT, 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.}{Other Database:: CIMRI} |
| Reporter | Calder, Susan R., Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) |