Mine detail: Mammoth - St. Anthony Mine

Previously called 'TigerCollinsMohawkNew YearsMammothSt. AnthonyMammoth MineTiger Mine TailingsMammoth Tailings'

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Location: Pinal County, Arizona, United States, North America
Lat / long: 32.70621, -110.68457
dep_id: 10039507
mrds_id: M050189
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Gold, Lead, Zinc, Vanadium
Minor mineral: Silica, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper
Trace mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Tungsten
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Anglesite, Brochantite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Descloizite, Diaboleite, Dioptase, Galena, Gold, Hemimorphite, Linarite, Malachite, Mottramite, Silver, Smithsonite, Sphalerite, Vanadinite, Willemite, Wulfenite
gangue: Amethyst, Barite, Calcite, Chlorite, Epidote, Fluorite, Pyrite, Quartz, Specularite, Tourmaline
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Surface
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
alteration: Oxidized To 900 Ft, Slight To Complete Silicification, Some Chlori Tization, Sericitization, Clay Alteration
conc_proc: Fissure Filling, Replacement
ore_ctrl: Wnw Shear Zones, Particularly Where Shearing And Brecciation Are Intense
Reporter: Peterson, Jocelyn A., Carbonaro, Marguerite M.
hrock_unit: Oraccle Granite
hrock_type: Quartz Monzonite
arock_type: Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate),Rhyolite
Structure: Block Faulting Trending Nnw, Mammoth Fault Splits Ore Body Into 2 Segments
tectonic: Basin And Range
Year first produced: 1881
disc_yr: 1879
discr: Frank Schultz
References:
  • Deposit:: PETERSON, 1938, ABM BULL 144.
  • Deposit:: WILSON ET AL, 1934, ABM BULL 137.
  • Deposit:: CREASEY, 1965, USGS PP 471.
  • Deposit:: CREASEY, 1950, ABM BULL 156.
  • Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., AND MOORE, R.T., 1969, FLUORSPAR, IN ABM BULLETIN 180, USGS BULLETIN 871, P. 353.
  • Deposit:: PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERALS CARD FILE.
  • Deposit:: PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.
  • Deposit:: SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
  • Reserve-Resource:: SAWYER AND OTHERS, 1992 AND NIEMUTH, 1987.
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