Mine detail: Capote Mine

Previously called 'Stargo Group'

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Location: Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, North America
Lat / long: 33.06982, -109.35454
dep_id: 10048289
mrds_id: M800418
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver
Minor mineral: Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Gold, Silver
orebody_fm: NORMAL FISSURE VEIN FILLING WITH IRREGULAR AND BLANKET LATERAL EXTENSIONS
alteration: Minor
conc_proc: Surface Leaching; Concentration Of Mineralizing Solutions Along Bedding Planes Adjacent To Vein
ore_ctrl: N-S Trending Fissure Vein; Ore Is A Water Deposited Quartz
Reporter: Calder, Susan R.
hrock_unit: Longfellow Limestone
hrock_type: Quartzite
arock_unit: Coronado Quartzite
arock_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
Year first produced: 1907
yr_lst_prd: 1908
disc_yr: 1890
discr: Ignacio Campbell
References:
  • 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
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