Mine detail: Flora Temple Claim

Previously called 'Flora Temple ExtensionPart of Castle Dome Mine Group'

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Location

Lat / long:

33.04229, -114.1755

Resource(B)

Primary:	Lead, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper
Tertiary:	Molybdenum, Vanadium, Barium-Barite, Zinc
Ore:	Anglesite, Hydrozincite, Limonite, Mimetite, Pyrite, Smithsonite, Vanadinite, Wulfenite
Gangue:	Aragonite, Barite, Calcite, Fluorite, Quartz
Orebody form:	LENSES & SHOOTS
Discovery year:	1871

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1871
Last production ended:	1949

Geology

Host type:	Slate,Shale,Rhyolite
Associated rock:	Kofa Volcanics
Associated type:	Mafic Intrusive Rock,Diorite
Structure:	Well Defined Faults
Alteration processes:	Sericitization, Silicification, Locally Iron-Stained

References

MRDS	M030315
DEP	10037073
Reference	{Deposit:: KEITH, 1978, ABGMT BULL 192.}{Deposit:: WILSON, 1933, ABM BULL 134.}{Deposit:: WILSON, 1951, ABM BULL 158.}{Deposit:: PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.}{Deposit:: USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA}{Deposit:: USBM FILE DATA CLUSTER 343, FLORA TEMPLE}{Other Database:: CIMRI}
Reporter	Peterson, Jocelyn A., Orris, Greta J.