Mine detail: Buena Vista Mine

Previously called 'Goodview'

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Location

Lat / long:

31.38097, -110.76874

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Silver
Secondary:	Lead, Gold
Tertiary:	Molybdenum
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Malachite, Molybdenite, Pyrite
Gangue:	Calcite, Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1895

Production

Operation type:	Underground
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1915
Last production ended:	1958

Geology

Host type:	Hornblendite
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	E-W And Ne-Trending Quartz Veins And Associated Bands Of Crushed, Mineralized Rock In Fault Fissures Cutting Diorite And Quartz Monzonite ., Ne Fault Or Shear Zone; Crushed Rock In Shear Zone
Alteration processes:	Minor Oxidation

References

MRDS	M001429
MAS	40230136
DEP	10098206
Reference	{Deposit:: KEITH, 1975, ABM BULL 191.}{Deposit:: SCHRADER, 1915, USGS BULL 582.}{Deposit:: SCHRADER AND HILL,910, USGS BULL 430.}{Deposit:: ABGMT FILE DATA, STANTON B. KEITH.}{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 658-E.}{Other Database:: DMEA}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: KEITH, 1975; SCHRADER, 1915; PP 658-E.}
Reporter	Peterson, Jocelyn A., Calder, Susan R., Causey, J. Douglas