Mine detail: Lion Hill Mine

Previously called 'Glory GroupRico'

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Location

Lat / long:

34.18282, -114.18912

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver, Copper
Ore:	Chrysocolla, Gold, Limonite, Malachite, Silver, Specularite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1943

Geology

Host type:	Limestone
Associated type:	Basalt,Granite
Structure:	Nw-Trending Basin And Range Faults., Limestone Has Been Considerably Faulted And Jointed And Folded Into An Anticlinal Structure
Tectonic:	Block Faulting
Alteration processes:	Minor Iron Oxide

References

MRDS	M002308
DEP	10027158
Reference	{Deposit:: ABM BULL 137, P. 126.}{Deposit:: ABGMT BULL 192, P. 142.}{Deposit:: KEITH, S.B., 1978, INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 192, P. 142.}{Deposit:: USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: WILKINS, J., AND HEIDRICK, T.L., 1982, BASE AND PRECIOUS METAL MINERALIZATION RELATED TO LOW-ANGLE TECTONIC FEATURES IN THE WHIPPLE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA AND BUCKSKIN MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA. IN: MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE COLORADO RIVER REGION, CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, AND NEVADA: CORDILLERAN PUBLISHERS, P. 182.}{Production:: A.B.M. BULLETIN 137, P. 126; A.B.M. 192, P. 142.}
Reporter	Gere, W., Hall, R. K. (Creasey, S. C.), Orris, Greta J.