Lat / long: | 33.10343, -109.35454 |
Primary: | Copper |
Secondary: | Silver |
Ore: | Brochantite, Malachite, Molybdenite |
Gangue: | Chlorite, Kaolin, Limonite |
Orebody form: | IRREGULAR |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Small |
Development status: | Producer |
First production started: | 1902 |
Last production ended: | 1911 |
Host type: | Quartz Monzonite |
Associated rock: | Morenci Granite Porphyry |
Associated type: | Granite |
Structure: | Closely Massed Joint Systems Trending Ne; Fissure System Trending Ne, Part Of First Great Fault Block South Of The Coronado Massif |
Tectonic: | Transition Zone Between Basin And Range And Colorado Plateau Provinces |
Alteration processes: | Oxidation To Unknown Depth; Chloritization Of Biotite; Extensive Hydrothermal Alterration |
MRDS | M800162 |
DEP | 10048130 |
Reference | {Deposit:: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 43 (1905)}{Deposit:: AGBMT-USBM FILE DATA}{Deposit:: BUTLER, B.S. AND ELDRED D. WILSON, 1938, SOME ARIZONA ORE DEPOSITS, CLIFTON-MORENCI DISTRICT, ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 145}{Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT MAP 839} |
Reporter | Calder, Susan R. |