Mine detail: American Boy Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

31.62457, -110.82262

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead, Silver, Copper
Secondary:	Zinc, Gold
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1906

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1912
Last production ended:	1951

Geology

Host rock:	Piper Gulch Monzonite
Host type:	Quartz Monzonite
Associated rock:	Squaw Gulch Granite
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Ne - Trending Quartz Fissure Veins Cutting Quartz Monzonite And Along Contact Between Monzonite And Nearby Rhyolite Intrusions, Quartz Monzonite Is Intruded And Overlain By Rhyolite In Vicinity
Tectonic:	Mount Wrightson Fault Block
Alteration processes:	Lode Consists Mainly Of Crushed And Altered Country Rock, Some Of It Altered To Kaolin

References

MRDS	M241322
DEP	10046336
Reference	{Deposit:: USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: USBM-FILE DATA-CLUSTER #118, AMERICAN BOY MINE.}{Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE DATA, AMERICAN BOY MINE.}{Deposit:: ADMR FILE DATA, AMERICAN BOY MINE.}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 582, P. 229-230.}{Deposit:: ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 88.}{Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT SHEET #687.}{Deposit:: ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH.}{Deposit:: USGS MAP I-614}{Deposit:: USGS PP 748, P. 14-15}{Deposit:: ROHRBACHER, ROBERT G., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE TEMPORAL GULCH-MANSFIELD CANYON AREA, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, P. 69-70.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}
Reporter	Laraba, Peter (Calder, Susan), Orris, Greta J.