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

MRDSM800331
DEP10048232
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782, P.91 TO 92}{Deposit:: USGS PP 308 P. 149-151}{Deposit:: ABM BULL 145 P. 55-56}{Deposit:: ROGERS, THORNWELL, 1979, UNPUBLISHED M.S. THESIS-COPPER CHIEF MINE.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}
ReporterLaraba, Peter (Dewitt, Ed)