| Location: | Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 33.08566, -109.36121 |
| dep_id: | 10048273 |
| mrds_id: | M800396 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper |
| Minor mineral: | Zinc |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite |
| gangue: | Epidote, Garnet, Magnetite, Pyroxene |
| orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| alteration: | Limestones Alterred To Intergrowths Of Epidote, Garnet, Pyroxene, Magnetite, Pyrite, And Chalcopyrite; Extensive Surface Oxidation To Depths Of 100 Ft; Porphyry Greatly Alterred To Sericite And Quartz With Disseminated Pyrite |
| conc_proc: | Secondary Enrichment Of Porphyry Dikes; Replacement Of Pyrite By Chalcocite In Descending Sulfate Solutions |
| ore_ctrl: | Ore Is Confined To Porphyry Dikes That Probably Stem From The Main Maps Of Copper Mountain Porphyry |
| Reporter: | Calder, Susan R. |
| hrock_unit: | Longfellow Limestone |
| hrock_type: | Limestone |
| arock_unit: | Morenci Granite Porphyry |
| arock_type: | Quartz Monzonite |
| Structure: | Complex System Of Branching Porphyry Dikes Enclosing Irregular Masses Of Alterred Limestone; Difficult To Connect The Bodies Exposed On Various Levels Of Mines In The Area, Dikes Contain Parallel Seams Of Chalcocite And Pyrite; Dikes Outcrop To Widths Of 30 Ft But Are Locally Pinched Below The 183 Ft Mine Level |
| tectonic: | Dispersed Fractured Zones Associated With The Complex Copper Mountain Fault System |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1932 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.
- Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, ARIZONA COPPER CO LTD.
- Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT SHEET 840.
- Deposit:: USGS PP 43, P. 269-271.
- Deposit:: BENNETT, K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.
- Other Database:: CIMRI
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