Location: | Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 31.48097, -110.7165 |
dep_id: | 10048356 |
mrds_id: | M899944 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Copper |
Minor mineral: | Silver, Gold |
Trace mineral: | Lead |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Producer |
ore: | Chrysocolla, Cuprite, Limonite, Malachite, Tetrahedrite |
orebody_fm: | LENSES AND SHOOTS |
alteration: | Andesite Is Crushed And Highly Altered To Soft Vein Material;Surface Oxidation To Great Depths |
conc_proc: | Secondary Enrichment |
ore_ctrl: | Nw-Trending Fault Fissure And Vein System-Ore Occurs In Lenses And Shoots That Apparently Pitch Westward On Vein |
Reporter: | Calder, Susan R. |
hrock_type: | Limestone |
arock_type: | Rhyolite |
Structure: | Porphyritic To Fine-Grained Thin To Very Thick Trachyandesite Flows, Nw- And Ne-Trending Fissure Systems Cutting Thick-Bedded, Very Fine-Grained Volcanics Of Red Mountain |
tectonic: | Red Mountain And Corral Canyon Fault Blocks |
Year first produced: | 1882 |
yr_lst_prd: | 1949 |
disc_yr: | 1885 |
discr: | George F. Wieland And Associates |
References: |
- Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA
- Deposit:: ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH
- Deposit:: SIMONS, FRANK S., 1972, MESOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE PATAGONIA MOUNTAINS AND ADJOINING AREAS, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 658-E P. 22
- 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. 275-276
- Deposit:: KEITH, STANTON B., 1975, INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 191, P. 56
- Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE; WEILAND-GEBLER GROUP, GREAT SILVER MINE
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