Mine detail: Old Yuma Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

32.31483, -111.1218

Resource(B)

Primary:	Lead, Copper
Secondary:	Gold, Semiprecious Gemstone, Zinc, Molybdenum, Silver
Tertiary:	Vanadium
Ore:	Vanadinite, Wulfenite
Orebody form:	LENSING

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Andesite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite
Structure:	Faulted Orebody Along A Fracture Zone
Tectonic:	Basin And Range
Alteration processes:	Argillic

References

MRDS	M050625
DEP	10103758
Reference	{Deposit:: JENKINS & WILSON, 1920, ABM BULL 106.}{Deposit:: KEITH, 1974, ABM BULL 189, P. 102.}{Deposit:: NIEMUTH, N.J., 1987, ARIZONA MINERAL DEVELOPMENT 1984-1986: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES DIRECTORY 29, 46 P.}{Deposit:: SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}
Reporter	Peterson, Jocelyn A., Orris, Greta J.