Mine detail: Connecticut Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

31.66041, -110.86874

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Lead, Silver
Secondary:	Zinc, Gold
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Sphalerite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1895

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1913
Last production ended:	1937

Geology

Host type:	Diorite
Associated rock:	Josephine Canyon Diorite
Associated 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
Alteration processes:	At Depth, Shear Zone Ledge Is Composed Mainly Of Closely Sheeted, Sheared, And Partly Altered Diorite

References

MRDS	M241260
DEP	10046331
Reference	{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}
Reporter	Laraba, Peter (Calder, Susan)