Mine detail: Paymaster Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

31.41375, -110.74206

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Silver
Secondary:	Gold, Lead, Zinc
Tertiary:	Arsenic
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1937
Last production ended:	1941

Geology

Host type:	Hornblendite
Associated type:	Diorite,Granite
Structure:	Ne-Trending Jackalo-Paymaster Vein In Strong Fault Shear Zone Cutting, Nw-Trending, Inferred Guajolote Fault Terminated By Jackalo-Paymaster Fissure Vein Just East Of Paymaster Property
Tectonic:	Guajolote Fault Block; Downthrow To E
Alteration processes:	Granodiorite Is Strongly Altered, Shattered, Sheeted, And Crushed; Strong Potassic Alteration

References

MRDS	M899904
DEP	10088911
Reference	{Deposit:: USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA}{Deposit:: USBM FILE DATA-CLUSTER # 27, PAYMASTER MINE}{Deposit:: KEITH, S.B., 1975, ABM BULL 191, P. 81}{Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE DATA, PAYMASTER MINE}{Deposit:: ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH}{Deposit:: SIMONS, FRANKS, 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF THE NOGALES AND LOCHIEL QUADRANGLES, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; USGS MAP I-762 (1=4800)}
Reporter	Laraba, Peter H. (Calder, Susan)