| Location: | Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 33.10593, -109.40537 |
| dep_id: | 10048286 |
| mrds_id: | M800413 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper |
| Minor mineral: | Silver, Gold, Lead |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcocite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Malachite, Pyrite |
| gangue: | Hematite, Kaolin, Limonite |
| orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| alteration: | Intensive Surface Oxidation To Unknown Depths And Formation Of Gossans |
| conc_proc: | Intensive Surface Leaching; Supergene Enrichment Concentration In Ore Pockets Along Alterred Quartz Veins |
| ore_ctrl: | Ne-Trending Small Fault Fissure Between Granite On The South And Quartzite On Thenorth |
| Reporter: | Calder, Susan R. |
| hrock_unit: | Longfellow Limestone |
| hrock_type: | Quartz Monzonite |
| arock_unit: | Morenci Granite Porphyry;Coronado Quartzite |
| arock_type: | Diabase |
| Structure: | Ne Trending Diabasic And Granite Prophyry Dike Intrusives Into Quartzite And Limestones, Step-Faulting Along Veins In Locality |
| tectonic: | Coronado Granite Massif; Transition Between Basin And Range And Colorado Plateau Provinces |
| Year first produced: | 1913 |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1945 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA
- Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT SHEET 840
- Deposit:: STEVENS, H.J., 1911, THE COPPER HANDBOOK, VOL. X, PAGE 616, CLIFTON MORENCI CO
- Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE
- Deposit:: BENNETTI K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCIA METCALF DISTRICT, GREEN LEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 15.3 P.
- Deposit:: ARIZONA DEPRT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA
- Deposit:: MINING REPORTER, VOL. LIII, NO. 16 (APRIL 19, 1906), PAGES 386-390, REVIVAL OF GOLD MINING IN CLIFTON-MORENCI, ARIZONA, DISTRICT
- Deposit:: USBM FILES, UNDER DOVER
- Deposit:: USGS PP 43, P. 344-345
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