Mine detail: Black Dike Mine

Previously called 'Black Dike GroupBig Dike Apex & AjaxBlack Dike DepositBobson Group'

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Location

Lat / long:

31.92845, -111.28208

Resource(B)

Primary:	Uranium
Secondary:	Lead, Silver
Tertiary:	Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese, Tungsten
Ore:	Anglesite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Gold, Magnetite, Malachite, Pitchblende, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite, Sphalerite, Uraninite, Wulfenite
Gangue:	Chlorite, Epidote, Garnet
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR, LENTICULAR
Other material:	Pyrite
Discovery year:	1915

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Schist,Gneiss
Associated type:	Basalt
Alteration processes:	Manganese Oxides Mixed With Pitchblende

References

MRDS	M050276
DEP	10039556
Reference	{Deposit:: GRANGER AND RAUP, 1962, RECONN. URANIUM IN ARIZONA: USGS BULL. 1147-A, P. 25-29.}{Deposit:: USBM IC 7990, P. 121.}{Deposit:: KRIEGER, M., 1973, FIELD EXAM.}{Deposit:: USAEC RMO 679.}{Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., AND MOORE, R.T., 1969, FLUORSPAR, IN ABM BULLETIN 180, USGS BULLETIN 871, P. 352.}{Deposit:: PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERAL CARD FILES.}{Deposit:: PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.}{Deposit:: ABM BULLETIN 189, P. 132 .}{Deposit:: USAECRME 159, P. 6-12.}{Deposit:: 1950 RECON USAEC - WRIGHT - SUGGESTED OPENING SHAFT FOR U.}{Deposit:: 1951 GEOCHEM GRANGER & ADAMS - USGS BULL. 1147 A}
Reporter	Johnson, Maureen G., Carbonaro, Marguerite M., Orris, Greta J.