Mine detail: Mountain Springs Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

34.54948, -113.22216

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Lead, Zinc
Secondary:	Gold, Copper
Tertiary:	Thorium, Uranium, Molybdenum
Ore:	Anglesite, Chrysocolla, Galena, Hemimorphite, Malachite, Sphalerite, Wulfenite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Other material:	Pyrite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1941
Last production ended:	1951

Geology

Host rock:	Butte Falls Tuff;Dick Rhyolite
Host type:	Quartz Monzonite,Diorite,Rhyolite
Associated rock:	Diorite Porphyry;Aplite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Diorite,Rhyolite
Structure:	Foliation In Metavolcanic Rocks Trends N10e To N40e, Veins Parallel Dikes And Foliation. Mountain Spring Fault
Alteration processes:	None

References

MRDS	M800182
DEP	10048140
Reference	{Deposit:: AZ DEPT MIN RESOURCES FILE DATA}{Deposit:: ABM BULL 156, PART 1 P. 136-137}{Deposit:: USGS P.P. 278 P. 93 AND GEOLOGIC MAP}{Deposit:: US-AEC PRR-AP-77 (1953)}
Reporter	Laraba, Peter (Dewitt, Ed)