Mine detail: Lavender Pit

Previously called 'Copper DogPearlBisbee'

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Location

Lat / long: 31.43264, -109.89898

Resource(B)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Gemstone
Ore: Bornite, Chalcocite, Cuprite, Gold, Sphalerite, Turquoise
Gangue: Pyrite, Quartz
Orebody form: BLANKET

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Porphyry Cu
Production size: Large
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1950
Last production ended: 1974

Geology

Host type:Granite
Associated rock:Sacramento Hill Stock
Associated type:Granite
Structure:Pre-Mineralization Faulting And Tilting, Main Fault Directions, N10w To N40e, S30w To N50w, Pre-Mineralization

References

MRDSM241102
DEP10046238
Reference{Deposit:: KEITH, S.B., 1973, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 187, P. 88.}{Deposit:: BRYANT AND METZ, 1966, IN TITLEY AND HICKS, GEOLOGY OF THE PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS, SW NORTH AMERICA, P. 189-203.}{Deposit:: BLAIR, GERRY, 1992, THE ROCKHOUN* GUIDE TO ARIZONA: HELENA, MONTANA, FALCON PRESS, 165 P.}{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.}
ReporterZigler, Jan L., Laraba, Peter (Gest, Don E.), Cox, Dennis P.