Mine detail: Dura Mine

Previously called 'InternationalOld Contest'

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Location: Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States, North America
Lat / long: 31.39292, -110.91401
dep_id: 10046334
mrds_id: M241293
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Lead, Gold
Minor mineral: Antimony, Molybdenum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite, Stibnite, Wulfenite
gangue: Quartz
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Underground
alteration: Minor
conc_proc: Secondary Enrichment
ore_ctrl: Lensing Veins In Irregular Shear Zone; Irregular Pockets And Impregnations Of Ore
Reporter: Laraba, Peter (Calder, Susan)
hrock_type: Metasedimentary Rock
arock_unit: Quartz Monzonite Of Mount Benedict
arock_type: Quartz Monzonite
Structure: Numerous Nw Trending (Aplite) Dikes; Major Fault Trending N-S, Pyritized Lamprophyric Dikes
References:
  • Deposit:: USBM FILE DATA - CLUSTER #30 - DURA MINE GROUP
  • Deposit:: USGS BULL 582, P. 350-351
  • Deposit:: ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 60
  • Deposit:: USGS MAP I-762
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