Mine detail: Grand Reef Mine

Previously called 'Includes Grand Reef, Aravaipa, Dogwater, and Silver Cable ClaimsKlondike Area'

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Location: Graham County, Arizona, United States, North America
Lat / long: 32.89093, -110.32373
dep_id: 10039486
mrds_id: M050152
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Lead, Copper
Minor mineral: Silver, Zinc, Gold
Trace mineral: Silica, Molybdenum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Anglesite, Barite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Fluorite, Galena, Malachite, Sphalerite, Wulfenite
gangue: Quartz
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Underground
alteration: Silicification
ore_ctrl: In Silicified Breccia In Grand Reef Fault Within Rhyolite Porphyry Which Is Intruded By Granite
Reporter: Peterson, Jocelyn A., Carbonaro, Marguerite M., Orris, Greta J.
hrock_unit: Pinal Schist
hrock_type: Schist,Limestone,Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
arock_unit: Horse Mountain Volcanics;Goodwin Canyon Quartz Monzonite
arock_type: Quartz Monzonite,Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
Structure: Block Faulting Trending Nnw, Minor Pre-Cretaceous Folding Trending E And Ne, Grand Reef Fault (Low Angle Fault)
tectonic: Basin & Range
Year first produced: 1915
dy_ba: <
disc_yr: 1890
References:
  • Deposit:: SIMONS, 1964, USGS PP 461, 173 P.
  • Deposit:: ROSS, 1925, USGS BULL 763, 120 P.
  • Deposit:: DENTON, 1947, USBM RI 4007.
  • Deposit:: WILSON, 1950, ABM BULL 156.
  • Deposit:: PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERAL CARD FILES.
  • Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., AND MOORE, R.T., 1969, FLUORSPAR, IN ABM BULLETIN 180, USGS BULLETIN 871, P. 352.
  • Deposit:: MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM: ARIZONA FLUORSPAR, ARIZONA DMR, MARCH 1976.
  • Deposit:: PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
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