Mine detail: Chase Creek Placers

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Location

Lat / long:

33.05982, -109.32121

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Gold
Gangue:	Gravel
Orebody form:	DISPERSED FLAKES IN STREAM GRAVELS

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Placer
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer

Geology

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

References

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.)