Mine detail: Standard Copper Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

33.10343, -109.35454

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Silver
Ore:	Brochantite, Malachite, Molybdenite
Gangue:	Chlorite, Kaolin, Limonite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1902
Last production ended:	1911

Geology

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

References

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.