Location: | La Paz County, Arizona, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 34.18365, -114.2019 |
dep_id: | 10027863 |
mrds_id: | M004242 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Gold, Copper |
Minor mineral: | Silver |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Chrysocolla, Gold, Malachite, Specularite |
orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR |
alteration: | Oxidized Copper Mineralization |
ore_ctrl: | Mineralization Is Associated With Low-Angle Normal Faults. |
Reporter: | Gere, W., Hall, R. K. (Creasey, S. C.) |
hrock_type: | Quartzite |
arock_unit: | Osborne Wash Formation |
arock_type: | Basalt |
Structure: | Nw-Trending Basin And Range Faults., Gash Veins And Joint Planes Adjoining The Normal Faults. |
tectonic: | Block Faulting |
References: |
- Deposit:: ABM BULL 137, P. 127
- Deposit:: ABGMT BULL 192, P. 123
- Deposit:: WILKINS, J. AND HEIDRICK, T.L., 1982, BASE AND PRECIOUS METAL MINERALIZATION RELATED TO LOW-ANGLE TECTONIC FEATURES IN THE WHIPPLE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA AND BUCKSKIN MOUNTAINS,ARIZONA. IN: MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE COLORADO RIVER REGION, CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, AND NEVADA; CORDILLERAN PUBLISHERS; P. 182.
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