Mine detail: Verde Central Mine

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Location: Yavapai County, Arizona, United States, North America
Lat / long: 34.73976, -112.12185
dep_id: 10027268
mrds_id: M002674
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Silver, Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite
gangue: Chlorite, Quartz, Sericite
other_matl: Pyrite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Underground
alteration: Chloritization, Sericitization
conc_proc: Oxidation At Near Surface
ore_ctrl: Stratigraphy, Igneous Activity
Reporter: Gere, W., Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.), Laraba, Peter (Dewitt, Ed)
hrock_unit: Deception Rhyolite, Cleopatra Quartz Porphyry, Unknown Metabasalt
hrock_type: Meta-Basalt,Rhyolite
arock_type: Tuff,Rhyolite,Basalt
Structure: Foliation In Metavolcanic Rocks Trends N10w To N40w, Massive Sulfide Lenses Elongate Parallel To Bedding In Metavolcanic Rocks
yr_lst_prd: 1929
References:
  • Deposit:: ANDERSON, C.A. AND CREASEY, S.C., 1958 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE JEROME AREA, YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER 308 , P. 151
  • Deposit:: LINDGREN, 1926, USGS BULL 782, P. 95
  • Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA
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