Mine detail: Isabella Mine

Previously called 'Victor Claim'

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Location: Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States, North America
Lat / long: 31.40181, -110.79207
dep_id: 10048328
mrds_id: M899908
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead
Trace mineral: Manganese
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Galena, Psilomelane
gangue: Limonite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Underground
alteration: Granite Porphyry And Diorite Altered Near Vein
conc_proc: Mineralization Along Granite Porphyry-Diorite Contact
ore_ctrl: E-W Trending Quartz Vein Between Granite Porphyry On North And Riorite
Reporter: Laraba, Peter (Calder, Susan)
hrock_type: Granite
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: Deposits In Region Are Mainly Lead-Silver Quartzitic Veins Which Strike E-W At About Right Angles To Axis Of Range, Deposit Occurs Chiefly In Granite Porphyry
tectonic: N-S Trending Piedmont Fault; Patagonia Range Uplifted On East
disc_yr: 1904
discr: E.E. Bethell
References:
  • Deposit:: USBM FILE DATA-CLUSTER #22, ISABELLA MINE
  • Deposit:: SCHRADER, F.C., 1915, USGS BULL, 582, P.310-311
  • Deposit:: SIMONS, FRANK S. 1974 GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF THE NOGALES AND LOCHIEL QUADRANGLES, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; USGS MAP I-762 (1=48000)
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