Mine detail: Maine Mine

Previously called 'Poole GroupElla MineOchoa Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

31.38431, -110.70123

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Zinc
Secondary:	Silver, Lead
Tertiary:	Gold
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Hydrozincite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Orebody form:	DISSEMINATED AND IN BUNCHES IN SHEAR ZONE
Discovery year:	1880

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1880
Last production ended:	1965

Geology

Host rock:	Concha Limestone
Host type:	Limestone
Associated type:	Tuff,Welded Tuff,Rhyolite,Latite
Structure:	Mineral Deposits Of Washington-Duquesne Area Occupy A Limestone-Sediment Belt (2.5 Miles Long And 1.25 Miles Wide) Surrounded By Igneous Rocks Which Also Form Detached Masses And Dikes Within Belt, N-S Trending Kansas Fault
Tectonic:	Washington Camp Fault Block
Alteration processes:	Pyrometasomatized And Silicified Limestone; Surface Oxidation

References

MRDS	M241346
DEP	10046339
Reference	{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA}{Deposit:: USBM FILES, MAINE MINE}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 582, P. 343}{Deposit:: LEHMAN, NORMAN E., 1978, THE GEOLOGY AND PYROMETASOMATIC ORE DEPOSITS OF THE WASHINGTON CAMP-DUQUESNE DISTRICT, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; PHD. DISSERTATION, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, P. 126-143}{Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT MINING SHEET 727}{Deposit:: ADMR FILE DATA, MAINE MINE}{Deposit:: ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 78}{Deposit:: ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH}{Deposit:: USGS MAP I-762}{Deposit:: TENNEY, JAMES B. 1927-29, HISTORY OF MINING IN ARIZONA; ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, P. 293-300}
Reporter	Calder, Susan R.