Mine detail: Basin Mine Group

Previously called 'Dewey ProspectRed Rock ProspectWieland GroupGreat Silver MineBasin No 1 Prospect'

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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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