Mine detail: Guajolote Mine

Previously called 'QuajoloteBaconGualotaFour Metals Group'

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Location

Lat / long: 31.40931, -110.73761

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Silver
Secondary: Gold
Ore: Copper, Pyrite
Orebody form: TABULAR

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1937
Last production ended: 1941

Geology

Host type:Hornblendite
Associated type:Diorite,Granite
Structure:E-W And Ne-Trending Quartz Veins And Associated Bands Of Crushed Mineralized Rock In Fault Fissures Cutting Diorite And Quartz Monzonite, Located Near Nw-Trending Inferred Guajolote Fault; Fault Shear Zone Is 200 Ft Wide
Tectonic:Guajolote Fault Block; Downthrow To E
Alteration processes:Granodiorite Is Highly Shattered, Sheeted, And Crushed; Strong Potassic Alteration

References

MRDSM899910
DEP10048329
Reference{Deposit:: USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION DATA FILE.}{Deposit:: USBM FILE DATA-CLUSTER #22, GUAJOLOTE MINE.}{Deposit:: KEITH, S.B., 1975, ABM BULL. 191, P. 80.}{Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, GUAJOLOTE MINE.}{Deposit:: ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH.}{Deposit:: SCHRADER, F.C., 1915, USGS BULL. 582, P. 317-320 (FOUR METALS MINE).}{Deposit:: ADMR FILE DATA, FOUR METALS MINE.}{Deposit:: SIMONS, F.S., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF THE NOGALES AND LOCHIEL QUADRANGLES, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA: USGS MAP I-762 (1:48000).}{Deposit:: GRAYBEAL, F.T., 1972, THE PARTITION OF TRACE ELEMENTS AMONG COEXISTING MINERALS IN SOME LARAMIDE INTRUSIVE ROCKS IN ARIZONA: PHD. DISSERTATION, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, P. 36-43.}
ReporterLaraba, Peter (Calder, Susan)