Mine detail: Gross Copper Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

31.3857, -110.77207

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Molybdenum
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Pyrite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1899

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Unknown
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Quartz Monzonite
Associated type:	Hornblendite
Structure:	E-W And Ne Trending Quartz Veins And Associated Bands Of Crushed Mineralized Rock In Fault Fissures Cutting Diorite And Quartz Monzonite, Quartz Monzonite Is Locally Intruded By Granite Prophyry And Underlain By Diorite
Alteration processes:	Minor

References

MRDS	M899911
DEP	10048330
Reference	{Deposit:: SCHRADER, 1915, USGS BULL #582, P. 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)}
Reporter	Laraba, Peter (Calder, Susan)