Mine detail: Bisho
* Knoll Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

34.16228, -111.29377

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Copper
Ore:	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Orebody form:	LINEAR
Discovery year:	1950

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Hornblendite,Schist
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Major Nw Trending Fault Nearby., Faulting Occurs Later Than The Intrusion Of The Dikes Payson Granite Outcrops E Of Fault. Tertiary Sediments Outcrop 1 Mile S Of Mine. Nw-Se Fissures Are Common, Parallel Ne-Sw. Diorite Dikes Also Present. Ne-Trending Thrust Fault 1 Mile E Of Mine.

References

MRDS	M002896
DEP	10027340
Reference	{Deposit:: LAUSEN, C., WILSON, E. D., 1924 , GOLD AND COPPER DEPOSITS NEAR PAYSON, ARIZONA: ABM BULLETIN 120 , P. 41 .}{Deposit:: ARIZONA MINING JOURNAL, MAY 1920, P17.}{Deposit:: CONWAY,C.M.1976. PETROLOGY, STRUCTURE, AND EVOLUTION OF A PRECAMBRIAN VOLCANIC AND PLUTONIC COMPLEX, TONTO BASIN, GILA COUNTY, ARIZONA,CALIF INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PHD THESIS}
Reporter	Gere, W., Hall, R. K. (Creasey, S. C.)