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

MRDSM800162
DEP10048130
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}
ReporterCalder, Susan R.