Mine detail: Sacramento Mine

Previously called 'Bisbee'

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Location

Lat / long:

31.43708, -109.90176

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Gold, Silver
Secondary:	Vanadium
Tertiary:	Bismuth, Cadmium
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprodescloizite, Gold, Silver
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Contact Metamorphic
Production size:	Medium
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1917
Last production ended:	1931

Geology

Host rock:	Escabrosa Limestone
Host type:	Limestone
Associated rock:	Sacramento Hill Stock
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Pre-Mineralization Faulting And Tilting Common, Main Fault Directions, N10w To N40e, S30w To N50w, Pre-Mineralization
Alteration processes:	Gossan With Mn And Fe Oxides Induced By Hydrothermal Metamorphism

References

MRDS	M241099
DEP	10046235
Reference	{Deposit:: KEITH, S.B., 1973, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 187, P. 89.}{Deposit:: BONILLAS, 1917, AIME TRANS, V. 55, P. 284-355}{Geology:: Titley, S. R., 1993, Characteristics of porphyry copper occurrence in the American Southwest; in Kirkham, R.V., Sinclair, W.D., Thorpe, R.I. and Duke, J.M., Mineral Deposit Modeling, Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 40, p. 433-464.}{Geology:: Lowell, J.D. and Guilbert, J.M., 1970, Lateral and vertical alteration-mineralization zoning in porphyry ore deposits; Economic Geology, v. 65, p. 373-408.}{Production:: KEITH, 1973, ARIZ. BUR. OF MINES BULL. 187.}
Reporter	Zigler, Jan L., Laraba, Peter (Gest, Don E.)