| Location: | Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 33.13871, -109.35926 |
| dep_id: | 10027006 |
| mrds_id: | M001702 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Vein |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Producer |
| ore: | Chrysocolla |
| gangue: | Malachite |
| orebody_fm: | TABULAR |
| work_type: | Underground |
| alteration: | Pure Kaolin Occurs, No Sulfide Ore Is Present |
| conc_proc: | Mineralization Along Fissure Vein; Chrysocolla May Have Been Formed By Descending Copper Solutions And Precipitated By Adsorption Of The Kaolin |
| ore_ctrl: | Ne Trending Fissure Vein Follows Main Contact Between Limestone And 200 Ft Thick Porphyry Dike; Ore Bodies Chiefly Occur In Limestone And Not In Porphyry |
| Reporter: | Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.), Calder, Susan R. |
| hrock_unit: | Longfellow Limestone |
| hrock_type: | Limestone |
| arock_unit: | Morenci Granite Porphyry |
| arock_type: | Plutonic Rock |
| Structure: | Normal Faulting Confined To Pre-Tertiary Rocks, Vicinity Is Extensively Faulted ; At The Ne End Of The Tunnel, The Main Fissure Appears To Break Into The Porphyry And Is Complicated By Faulting |
| tectonic: | Metcalf Fault Block |
| Year first produced: | 1890 |
| disc_yr: | 1872 |
| discr: | Isaac Stevens |
| References: |
- Deposit:: LINDGREN, W., 1905 , THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE CLIFTON-MORENCI DISTRICT, ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. PROFESSIONAL PAPER 43 , P. 353
- Deposit:: GALBRAITH, MINERALS OF ARIZONA, ARIZ BUREAU OF MINES GEOLOGICAL SERIES NO 15, BULL 149
- Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT SHEET 837
- Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA
- Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, ARIZONA COPPER CO LTD
- Deposit:: STEVENS, 1911, THE COPPER HANDBOOK, V. 10, P. 356, ARIZONA COPPER CO LTD
- 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.
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