| Lat / long: | 33.13288, -109.39259 |
| Primary: | Copper |
| Secondary: | Gold, Silver |
| Ore: | Chalcocite, Dioptase, Malachite |
| Gangue: | Hematite |
| Orebody form: | IRREGULAR |
| Discovery year: | 1875 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small |
| Development status: | Producer |
| First production started: | 1905 |
| Last production ended: | 1916 |
| 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 |
| 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. |