Mine detail: Mystery Mine

Previously called 'Minerals Exploration Co.'

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Location

Lat / long:

31.74485, -109.81759

Resource(B)

Primary:	Silver, Zinc, Lead
Secondary:	Copper, Gold, Semiprecious Gemstone
Ore:	Anglesite, Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite, Silver, Smithsonite, Wulfenite
Gangue:	Aragonite, Calcite, Hematite, Jarosite, Kaolin, Limonite, Pyrolusite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1879

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Replacement
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1924
Last production ended:	1942

Geology

Host rock:	Naco Group
Host type:	Limestone
Associated rock:	Gleeson Quartz Monzonite;Sugarloaf Quartz Latite Porphyry
Associated type:	Quartz Latite
Structure:	In Limestone Near Quartz Monzonite Contact, Naco Dips 40 To 50 Ne, Intrusion Plane Dips 5 W, Showing Only Slight Marbleization Of Limestone
Alteration processes:	Oxidation

References

MRDS	M800139
DEP	10048117
Reference	{Deposit:: WILSON, E.D., 1927, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE COURTLAND-GLEESON REGION ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 123, P. 77.}{Deposit:: ABGMT 187, P. 84.}{Deposit:: ABM FILE DATA}{Deposit:: BLAIR, GERRY, 1992, THE ROCKHOUN * GUIDE TO ARIZONA: HELENA, MONTANA, FALCON PRESS, 165 P.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}
Reporter	Gest, Don E., Orris, Greta J.