Mine detail: Connecticut Mine

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Location: Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States, North America
Lat / long: 31.66041, -110.86874
dep_id: 10046331
mrds_id: M241260
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Lead, Silver
Minor mineral: Zinc, Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Sphalerite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Underground
alteration: At Depth, Shear Zone Ledge Is Composed Mainly Of Closely Sheeted, Sheared, And Partly Altered Diorite
conc_proc: Oxidation; Epigenetic Mineralization
ore_ctrl: Bands Or Stringers Along Fault Or Shear Zone Ledge In Quartz Diorite
Reporter: Laraba, Peter (Calder, Susan)
hrock_type: Diorite
arock_unit: Josephine Canyon Diorite
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: Sw End Of Gardner Canyon Dike Swarm; Veins In Region Generally Strike E-W And Can Be Traced Only A Few 100 Ft, Seams Or Stringers Of Oxidized Ferruginous Material Concentrated Along Sheeting Planes Of Shear Zone
tectonic: Salero Fault Block
Year first produced: 1913
yr_lst_prd: 1937
disc_yr: 1895
discr: R.R. Richardson
References:
  • Deposit:: USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA
  • Deposit:: USBM-FILE DATA-CLUSTER #131, CONNECTICUT MINE
  • Deposit:: USGS BULL 582, P. 189-190
  • Deposit:: ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 84
  • Deposit:: ABGMT FILES STANTON B. KEITH
  • Deposit:: USGS MAP I-614
  • Deposit:: USGS PP 748, P. 11-12
  • Deposit:: ROHRBACHER, ROBERT G., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE TEMPORAL GULCH-MANSFIELD CANYON AREA, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, P. 65-73
  • Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, CONNECTICUT MINE
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