| Location: | Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 32.78344, -109.25286 |
| dep_id: | 10027134 |
| mrds_id: | M002203 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Manganese |
| Trace mineral: | Gypsum-Anhydrite |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Producer |
| ore: | Psilomelane, Pyrolusite |
| gangue: | Calcite, Gypsum, Limonite |
| orebody_fm: | LENSES, STRINGERS |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| alteration: | Basalt Is Extensively Decomposed And Is Altered In The Shear Zones To A Crunbly And Clayey Material; Cavitites And Vesicles Of Basalt Are Filled With A White Mineral Of Secondary Origin; Surface Oxidation To Unknown Depths |
| conc_proc: | Mineralization Along Fracture Zones; Concentration In Stringers, Seams, And Discontinuous Or Lenslike Veinlets; Psilomelane Occurs In Veinlets Inclosed In Soft Altered Basalt; Pyrolusite Forms Nodules Scattered Along The Shear Zone |
| ore_ctrl: | Manganese Deposits Are Contained In 2 Shear Zones Traversing Vesicular Basalt Flow |
| Reporter: | Gere, W., Calder, Susan R. |
| hrock_type: | Rhyolite,Basalt |
| arock_unit: | Tertiary Volcanic Flows |
| arock_type: | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) |
| Structure: | Steep Northerly Trending Zones Of Shearing And Brecciation In Brownish Red Basalt Overlain By Light Pink Rhyolite, 2 Roughly Parallel Shear Zones Separated By Highly Altered Basalt Of Varying Thickness; Manganese Deposits Confined To Basalt |
| tectonic: | Summit Of Peloncillo Mountains; Gentle Sloping Ridges Descending To Detritus-Filled Whitlock Valley |
| Year first produced: | 1917 |
| disc_yr: | 1917 |
| discr: | R.V. Thurston And Joseph Hardy |
| References: |
- Deposit:: JONES, E.L. JR. AND RANSOME, F.L., 1920 , DEPOSITS OF MANGANESE ORE IN ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 710-D, P. 130.
- Deposit:: WILSON, E.D. AND BUTLER, G.M., 1930 , MANGANESE ORE DEPOSITS IN ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 127 , P. 62.
- Deposit:: FARNHAM, L.L., STEWART, L.A., AND DELONG, C.W., 1961 , MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF EASTERN ARIZONA: U.S.B.M. INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7990 , P. 99.
- Deposit:: USBM FILES, DENTON CLAIMS.
- Deposit:: ARIZONA DEPT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA; DENTON MINE (SANDERS; THURSTON AND HARDY); HARDY MINE, BLACK BUTTE MINE.
- Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE; DENTON MANGANESE MINE, HARDY MINE, SANDERS MINE, THURSTON MANGANESE PROPERTY.
- Production:: U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 710-D; U.S.B.M. I.C. 7990
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