Mine detail: Azure-Rising Sun Mine

Previously called 'Claims: Azure No. 1Azure No. 3Rising Sun No. 2Black BearMine: HadleyAzure No. 4'

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Location

Lat / long:

35.80312, -105.46389

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Molybdenum, Gold
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Molybdenite
Gangue:	Biotite, Calcite, Epidote, Garnet, Malachite, Quartz
Orebody form:	LINEAR
Discovery year:	1900

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1900
Last production ended:	1940

Geology

Host type:	Schist
Tectonic:	Sangre De Cristo Uplift
Alteration processes:	The Schist Has Been Extensively Altered Along Both Walls Of The Vein.

References

MRDS	W016619
DEP	10072169
Reference	{Deposit:: LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C. AND GORDON, C.H., 1910, USGS PP 68, P. 116}{Deposit:: HARLEY, C.T., 1940, NMBMMR BULL 15, P. 52-56.}{Deposit:: SCHILLING, J.H., 1965, NMBMMR BULL 76, P. 42-43.}{Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA.}
Reporter	Weeks, Robert, Murray, Diane