| Location: | Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 33.06927, -109.39926 |
| dep_id: | 10048287 |
| mrds_id: | M800415 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Gold, Silver |
| Minor mineral: | Copper, Lead, Zinc |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Producer |
| gangue: | Epidote, Garnet, Limonite, Magnetite |
| orebody_fm: | LINEAR |
| alteration: | Limestone Greatly Altered To Epidote And Magnetite With Copper Stains And Pyrite; At The Mouth Of Pinkard Gulch, Limestone Is Locally Altered To Garnet Near Porphyry Contacts; Vein Follows Epidotized Contact Of A Porphyry Dike In Limestone |
| conc_proc: | Secondary Enrichment Along Well-Defined Veins |
| ore_ctrl: | Irregular Deposits Of Gold Are Contained In Limonite Along The Vein |
| Reporter: | Calder, Susan R. |
| hrock_unit: | Pinkard Sandstone And Shale;Longfellow Limestone |
| hrock_type: | Limestone |
| arock_unit: | Morenci Granite Porphyry |
| arock_type: | Quartz Monzonite |
| Structure: | Irregularly Jointed Porphyry Caused By Intrusive Action Rather Than By Faulting, Principal Intrusions Occurred Parallel To Planes Of Sedimentation Which Dip 10-30 Sw |
| tectonic: | Gold Gulch Fault Block |
| Year first produced: | 1949 |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1951 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.
- Deposit:: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA, UNDER DOVER COPPER.
- Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT SHEET 841.
- Deposit:: USGS P 43, P. 292-298.
- Deposit:: BENNETT, K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METRALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.
- Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, DOVER COPPER MINING CO.
- Other Database:: CIMRI
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