Mine detail: Old Dominion Mine

Previously called 'Old Dominion and United GlobeGlobe and Transit'

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Location

Lat / long:

33.4148, -110.79097

Resource(B)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc
Tertiary:	Asbestos, Aluminum, Kaolin
Ore:	Actinolite, Alunite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Psilomelane, Sphalerite, Wad
Gangue:	Epidote, Garnet, Halloysite, Kaolinite, Limonite, Quartz, Sericite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1874

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1882
Last production ended:	1957

Geology

Host rock:	Troy Quartzite;Naco Limestone, Martin Limestone, Escabrosa Limestone;Mescal Limestone, Dripping Springs Quartzite
Host type:	Diabase,Quartzite,Limestone
Associated rock:	Madera Diorite;Schultze Granite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Diorite,Diabase
Structure:	N And W Of Mine Is A Complex Network Of Ne And N-S Faults In Precambrian Diabase And Lower Paleozoic Sediments, Two Small Parallel Nw Trending Faults, One Intersects With Ne Trending Fault Near A Shaft Tert Dacite Overlies Deposit To Northwest
Tectonic:	S Edge Of District, Only Mine Where Inteunions Of Schultze Granite Are Exposed.
Alteration processes:	In The Central Vein Where Limestone Was Most Completely Replaced By Hypogene Sulfides, And Gangue Minerals, Downward Migration Of Copper Continued As Long As Pyrite Remained In Vein. When All Pyrite Had Been Either Oxidized Or Replaced, Further Oxidation A Lterro The Chalcocite To Copper Carbinates And Oxides In The Oxidation Zone.

References

MRDS	M241482
DEP	10046353
Reference	{Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES.}{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: ADMR FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: TENNEY, J.B., HISTORY OF MINING IN ARIZONA, 1927-29, P. 72-82.}{Deposit:: PETERSON, N.P., 1962, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE GLOBE-MIAMI DISTRICT, ARIZONA, USGS PP 342, P. 98-103.}{Deposit:: RANSOME, F.L.,1903, GEOLOGY OF THE GLOBE COPPER DISTRICT, ARIZONA, USGS PP 12, P. 134-152.}{Deposit:: LAUSEN, CARL, 1923. GEOLOGY OF THE OLD DOMINION MINE. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA M.S. THESIS.}{Deposit:: GALBRAITH, FREDERIC W., 1947, MINERALS OF ARIZONA: ABM BULLETIN NO. 153, P. 70.}{Deposit:: PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERAL CARD FILES.}{Deposit:: PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}
Reporter	Roth, Frances A. (Gest, Don E.), Carbonaro, Marguerite M., Orris, Greta J.