Mine detail: Desert Mine

Previously called 'Golden MoundGold Eagle'

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Location

Lat / long:

33.76284, -113.72438

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Gold
Secondary:	Silver, Lead
Tertiary:	Molybdenum, Iron
Ore:	Chalcocite, Chrysocolla, Cuprite, Gold, Limonite, Malachite, Wulfenite
Gangue:	Calcite, Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR, CONTORTED

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Metasedimentary Rock,Argillite
Associated type:	Rhyolite,Granite
Structure:	Schistosity Of Metasediments

References

MRDS	M003794
DEP	10027677
Reference	{Deposit:: USGS BULL 451, P. 102.}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 1355, P. 74.}{Deposit:: ABM BULL 192, P. 148.}{Deposit:: ADMR FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM PRODUCTION FILE DATA.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 1355, P. 74 (8) KEITH, S.B., 1978.}
Reporter	Gere, W., Hall, R. K. (Creasey, S. C.), Orris, Greta J.