Mine detail: Blue Eagle Mine

Previously called 'Blue Eagle and Exposed Reef GroupBlue Eagle 1 and 2 ClaimsHillside Copper Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

31.49236, -110.75679

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold
Ore:	Argentite, Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Sulfur
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1897

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1903
Last production ended:	1956

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite
Associated rock:	Mt Wrightson Formation
Associated type:	Sandstone
Structure:	Nw-Trending Harshaw Creek Fault (N30w); General Structure Common To Regional Formations Is A Sheeting Which Dips 40nnw, Sedimentary Rocks Are Locally Intruded By Quartz Monzonite(?) And Granitic Aplite
Tectonic:	Alum Gulch Fault Block
Alteration processes:	Pyritic Gossan Capping Deposit; Volcanic Sedimentary Rocks Commonly Altered To Epidote, Tourmaline, Quartz, Sericite, Kaolinite, Alunite, And Pyrophyllite; Propylitic Alteration

References

MRDS	M899941
DEP	10048351
Reference	{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA}{Deposit:: USBM FILES, BLUE EAGLE GROUP}{Deposit:: ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH}{Deposit:: KEITH, STANTON B., 1975, INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 191, P. 57}{Deposit:: MOORES, RICHARD C., 1972, THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF A PORTION OF THE HARSHAW DISTRICT, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA}{Deposit:: SIMONS, FRANK S., 1972, MESOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE PATAGONIA MOUNTAINS AND ADJOINING AREAS, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 658-E}{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)}{Deposit:: SCHRADER, FRANK C., 1915, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SANTA RITA AND PATAGONIA MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA; USGS BULLETIN 582 P. 257-258}{Deposit:: ADMR FILE DATA, EXPOSED REEF AND BLUE EAGLE GROUPS}
Reporter	Calder, Susan R.