Mine detail: Capote Mine

Previously called 'Stargo Group'

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Location

Lat / long:

33.06982, -109.35454

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver
Secondary:	Gold
Ore:	Gold, Silver
Orebody form:	NORMAL FISSURE VEIN FILLING WITH IRREGULAR AND BLANKET LATERAL EXTENSIONS
Discovery year:	1890

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1907
Last production ended:	1908

Geology

Host rock:	Longfellow Limestone
Host type:	Quartzite
Associated rock:	Coronado Quartzite
Associated type:	Quartzite
Structure:	N-S Trending Fissures Cut By Short Cross-Faults; Block Faulting, Tilted Block Of Limestone Resting On Basal Quartzite And Granite; Block Is Bounded By Copper Mountain To Ne And Apache Gulch (Renamed Stargo Gulch) To Sw
Tectonic:	Fault Block South Of Morenci; Precipitous Gully Terrain Of Morenci Gulch
Alteration processes:	Minor

References

MRDS	M800418
DEP	10048289
Reference	{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT SHEETS 842 AND 841.}{Deposit:: USGS PP 43, SQUARE BUTTE AND APACHE GULCH.}{Deposit:: WILLIS, C.F., 1920, MINES OF TOMORROW NO. 10-THE STARGO MINES CO INC, IN ARIZONA MINING JOURNAL, V. IV, NO. 3, P. 34-35, 52-53, AUGUST 1920.}{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.}{Deposit:: WEED, 1925, THE MINES HANDBOOK, V. XIV, P. 454-455, STARGO MINES INC AND STARGO SILVER BELT MINING CO.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}
Reporter	Calder, Susan R.