Mine detail: Bruce Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

34.54504, -113.23105

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc, Copper
Secondary:	Lead, Gold, Silver
Tertiary:	Arsenic
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Magnetite, Sphalerite, Tennantite
Gangue:	Calcite, Chlorite, Pyrite, Quartz
Orebody form:	LENS, STRATIFORM
Discovery year:	1957

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1968
Last production ended:	1977

Geology

Host type:	Andesite
Associated type:	Rhyolite,Andesite
Structure:	Foliation In Precambrian Metavolcanic Rocks Trends N 20 E To N 30 E, Massive Sulfide Lenses Parallel Foliation And Bedding
Alteration processes:	Chloritization, Pyritization

References

MRDS	M800223
DEP	10048170
Reference	{Deposit:: USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: AZ. DEPT. MIN. RESOURCES FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: WORLD MINING, DEC., 1965, P. 68.}{Deposit:: MINING ENGINEERING, APRIL, 1973, P. 39, 42.}{Deposit:: SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATS BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: D.P. COX, 1973.}
Reporter	Dewitt, Ed H., Orris, Greta J. (Beougher, Dee)