Mine detail: Swallow Mine

Previously called 'DoblerMoonlight'

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Location

Lat / long:

34.05728, -112.50907

Resource(B)

Primary:	Copper, Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Chalcocite, Chrysocolla, Copper
Gangue:	Calcite, Fluorite, Hematite, Limonite, Quartz, Specularite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1890

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1910
Last production ended:	1966

Geology

Host type:	Mica Schist,Amphibole Schist,Rhyolite
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Veins Parallel Low-Angle (Less Than 50 Degree Dip) Faults Which Trend Nw, Foliation In Precambrian Schist Trends N 20 E To N 50 E. Tertiary Volcanics Dip Ne, Strike Nw
Alteration processes:	Minor Fe-Staining

References

MRDS	M800203
DEP	10048155
Reference	{Deposit:: AZ DEPT. MIN. RES. FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: U.S.G.S. BULL. 782, P. 184-185.}{Deposit:: PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERAL CARD FILES.}{Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., AND MOORE, R.T., 1969, FLUORSPAR, IN ABM BULLETIN 180, USGS BULLETIN 871, P. 354.}{Deposit:: ELEVATORSKI, E.A., ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, MINERAL REPORT NO. 2, ARIZONA DMR.}{Deposit:: PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}
Reporter	Laraba, Peter (Dewitt, Ed), Carbonaro, Marguerite M., Orris, Greta J.