| Location: | Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 33.05288, -109.38926 |
| dep_id: | 10048294 |
| mrds_id: | M800426 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Manganese, Gold |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Pyrolusite |
| gangue: | Biotite, Hornblende, Labradorite, Limonite |
| orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| alteration: | Sericitization Of Diorite-Porphyry Wall Rock |
| conc_proc: | Mineralization Along Quartz Vein In Pockets Or Irregular Vertical Bands |
| ore_ctrl: | Manganese Minerals Confined To Irregular Bands Within A Prominent Vertical Quartz Vein That Cuts Diorite Porphyry; Gold Occurs In Pockets Along Irregular Veins In The Porphyry Near The Contact Between Pinkard Formation Shales And Diorite Porphyry |
| Reporter: | Calder, Susan R. |
| hrock_unit: | Pinkard Formation |
| hrock_type: | Diorite |
| arock_unit: | Morenci Granite Porphyry |
| arock_type: | Diorite |
| Structure: | Diorite Porphyry Cut By Many Irregular And Ne-Trending Fissure Veins; Veins Are Narrow, Small, And Do Not Attain Great Depths, Ne-Trending Fissure Vein In Southernmost Extension Of Main Morenci Porphyry Mass |
| tectonic: | The Southern Of 2 Well-Defined Fissure Planes In Silver Creek Basin, Separating Cretaceous Sandstone And Shale From Porphyry; Downthrow On The West About 200 Ft |
| disc_yr: | 1932 |
| discr: | Corporate Group: Hernandez Family (1932); Climax Claim: Victoriano Dominguez And Diego Hernandez (1951) ? |
| References: |
- Deposit:: USBM INF CIRC 7990, P. 103.
- Deposit:: USBM FILES; CORPORATE GROUP, CLIMAX CLAIM.
- Deposit:: USGS PP 43, P. 229-230, 296.
- Deposit:: USGS BULL 1355, P. 15-16.
- Deposit:: ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 137, P. 185.
- Deposit:: BENNETT, K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORE NCI METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA=M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.
- Other Database:: CIMRI
- Production:: USBM 1.C. 7990, PAGE 103
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