Mine detail: Apache Mine

Previously called 'Defiance MineVanadium ShaftDefiance Lead'

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Location

Lat / long:

33.46952, -110.81541

Resource(B)

Primary:	Vanadium, Lead
Secondary:	Molybdenum, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Semiprecious Gemstone
Ore:	Anglesite, Brochantite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Descloizite, Galena, Malachite, Mottramite, Vanadinite, Willemite, Wulfenite
Gangue:	Calcite, Diabase, Limonite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1875

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1929
Last production ended:	1957

Geology

Host rock:	Pioneer Quartzite (Apache Group)
Host type:	Diabase,Quartzite
Associated type:	Diabase
Structure:	Bottom Limit Of Ore Is Bedding Plane Fault Which Possibly Obstructed Mineralizing Solutions
Alteration processes:	Chloritization, Clay-Sericite-Calcite

References

MRDS	M002970
DEP	10027368
Reference	{Deposit:: PETERSON, 1950, ABM BULL 156, P. 101.}{Deposit:: PETERSON, 1962, USGS PP 342, P. 126.}{Deposit:: WILSON, 1971, MINERAL. RECORD, V. 2, NO. 6, P. 252-258.}{Deposit:: ADMR DEFIANCE FILE,}{Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES (DEFIANCE, APACHE),}{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM DATA,}{Deposit:: BLAIR, GERRY, 1992, THE ROCKHOUN * GUIDE TO ARIZONA: HELENA, MONTANA, FALCON PRESS, 165 P.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: WILSON, 1971, P. 253}
Reporter	Peterson, Jocelyn A., Orris, Greta J.