Mine detail: Golconda Mine

Previously called 'Golconda Claim'

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Location

Lat / long:

34.05645, -112.30824

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Tertiary:	Arsenic
Ore:	Gold
Gangue:	Pyrite, Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1897

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1913
Last production ended:	1913

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite
Associated rock:	Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite;Rhyolite Porphyry Dikes
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Foliation In Precambrian Xenoliths (Quartz-Mica Schist) Trends N 40-50 E, Veins Parallel Rhyolite Porphyry Dikes And Foliation In Precambrian Xenoliths
Alteration processes:	Sericitization Adjacent To Some Dikes

References

MRDS	M800033
DEP	10048063
Reference	{Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE}{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 782, P. 178-179}{Deposit:: ABM BULL 140, P. 60-61}
Reporter	Dewitt, Ed H.