Mine detail: Mansfield Mine Group

Previously called 'Mansfield No. 1 and 2Black CapSweetRubyRupertLee'

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Location: Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States, North America
Lat / long: 31.61707, -110.79985
dep_id: 10046337
mrds_id: M241330
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead, Copper, Silver
Minor mineral: Gold, Zinc
Trace mineral: Manganese
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
gangue: Biotite, Hornblende, Quartz
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Underground
alteration: Wall Rocks Are Strongly Altered; Rhyolite Altered To Quartz
conc_proc: Epigenetic Mineralization Of Low-Grade Pyrite Quartz Veins
ore_ctrl: Parallel Ne-Trending Quartz Veins Cutting Quartz Monzonite And Along Contact Between Monzonite And Rhyolite
Reporter: Calder, Susan R.
hrock_type: Quartz Monzonite,Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate),Quartz Latite,Plutonic Rock
arock_unit: Mount Wrightson Formation;Temporal Formation
arock_type: Rhyolite,Dacite
Structure: Quartz Monzonite Is Intruded And Overlain By Rhyolite, Dominant Structure In Monzonite Dips 35e; Rhyolite Traversed By A Coarse Sheeting Which Dips 60w
tectonic: Mount Wrightson Fault Block
Year first produced: 1881
yr_lst_prd: 1951
disc_yr: 1879
discr: Jack Mansfield And Con Ryan
References:
  • Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA
  • Deposit:: USBM FILES, MANSFIELD MINE GROUP
  • Deposit:: ADMR FILE DATA, MANSFIELD MINE
  • Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT MINING SHEET 687, 12) USGS PP 748, P. 14-15
  • Deposit:: TENNEY, JAMES B., 1927-29, HISTORY OF MINING IN ARIZONA; ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, P. 317-318
  • 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
  • Deposit:: USGS BULL 582, P. 226-229
  • Deposit:: ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 90, 11) USGS MAP I-614
  • Deposit:: ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH
  • Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE; MANSFIELD MINING AND SMELTING CO., RUPERT GROUP
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