Mine detail: Copper Chief Mine

Previously called 'Iron King-EquatorCopper Chief-Iron King-Equator'

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Location

Lat / long:

34.70504, -112.09463

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver, Lead, Copper
Tertiary:	Zinc
Ore:	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Chlorite, Quartz, Sericite
Orebody form:	ELONGATED LENS

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1901
Last production ended:	1948

Geology

Host rock:	Deception Rhyolite, Cleopatra Quartz Porphyry Member
Host type:	Meta-Basalt,Rhyolite
Associated type:	Tuff,Rhyolite,Basalt
Structure:	Foliation In Metavolcanic Rocks Trends N10w To N40w, Massive Sulfide Lenses Elongate Parallel To Bedding In Metavolcanic Rocks
Alteration processes:	Chloritization, Sericitization

References

MRDS	M800331
DEP	10048232
Reference	{Deposit:: USGS BULL 782, P.91 TO 92}{Deposit:: USGS PP 308 P. 149-151}{Deposit:: ABM BULL 145 P. 55-56}{Deposit:: ROGERS, THORNWELL, 1979, UNPUBLISHED M.S. THESIS-COPPER CHIEF MINE. NORTH. AZ. UNIV.}{Deposit:: USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA}
Reporter	Laraba, Peter (Dewitt, Ed)