Mine detail: Cuprite Group

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

33.13288, -109.39259

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Gold, Silver
Ore:	Chalcocite, Dioptase, Malachite
Gangue:	Hematite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1875

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1905
Last production ended:	1916

Geology

Host type:	Granite
Associated rock:	Precambrian Granite Basement
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Veins Form Quartz-Filled Streaks In Granite; No Porphyry Dikes, Ores Occur In Granite Along The Vein And In Quartz Accompanying The Deposit
Tectonic:	Coronado Massif Surrounded By Peripheral Faults; Fault Block To East Of Massif Downthrown About 2000 Ft
Alteration processes:	Sericitization Of Orthoclase; Formation Of Nw And Ne Trending Quartz Vein Systems

References

MRDS	M800427
DEP	10048293
Reference	{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: WEED, W.H., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, V. XV, P. 261, CUPRITE COPPER CO.}{Deposit:: WEED, W.H., 1914, THE COPPER HANDBOOK, V. XI, P. 303, CUPRITE COPPER CO.}{Deposit:: USGS PP 43, P. 345-346.}{Deposit:: BENNETT K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI OF ARIZONA, 153 P.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}
Reporter	Calder, Susan R.