Mine detail: Red Cloud Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

33.10063, -114.60218

Resource(B)

Primary:	Silver, Lead
Secondary:	Gold, Copper, Semiprecious Gemstone
Tertiary:	Zinc, Vanadium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Tungsten, Manganese
Ore:	Anglesite, Cerargyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrolusite, Smithsonite, Vanadinite, Willemite, Wulfenite
Gangue:	Fluorite, Hematite, Iron, Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR MASSES, VUG LININGS

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Granite
Associated type:	Tuff,Rhyolite,Plutonic Rock
Structure:	Faults And Fractures Trending In Several Directions Have Extensively Affected All Of The Formations. The Most Prominent Faults Strike North-Northwest And, In Places, Form The Contracts Between Granite And Lavas
Alteration processes:	Wall Rocks Silicified, Sericitized, & Carbonatized

References

MRDS	M002442
DEP	10027196
Reference	{Deposit:: ELSING, M.J., HEINEMAN, R.E.S., 1936, ARIZONA METAL PRODUCTION: ARIZ. B.M. BULLETIN 140, P. 104.}{Deposit:: WILSON, ED., 1951, ARIZONA ZINC AND LEAD DEPOSITS: ARIZ. B.M. BULLETIN 158, P. 90.}{Deposit:: WILSON, E.D., 1933, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZ. B.M. BULLETIN 134, P. 65.}{Deposit:: PARKER, F.Z., 1966, THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SILVER DISTRICT, TRIGO MOUNTAINS, YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: MASTER THESIS SAN DIEGO STATE COLLEGE, P. 118-126.}{Deposit:: PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERAL CARD FILE.}{Deposit:: PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.}{Deposit:: BLAIR, GERRY, 1992, THE ROCKHOUN * GUIDE TO ARIZONA: HELENA, MONTANA, FALCON PRESS, 165 P.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: A.B.M. BULLETIN 140, P. 104; A.B.M. BULLETIN 158, P. 90, ABM BULLETIN 192, P. 177; DMEA RECORDS.}
Reporter	Gere, W., Hall, R. K. (Creasey, S. C.), Orris, Greta J.