| Location: | Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 33.07454, -109.36593 |
| dep_id: | 10104152 |
| mrds_id: | M800423 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper |
| Minor mineral: | Iron |
| Trace mineral: | Gypsum-Anhydrite |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Contact Metamorphic |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Brochantite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Gypsum, Malachite, Pyrite |
| gangue: | Epidote, Kaolin, Limonite, Pyroxene |
| orebody_fm: | TABULAR |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| alteration: | Oxidation To Depths Of 400 Ft, Facilitated By Richness Of Sulfides In Ore Body And Good Exposure To Percolating Waters; Modoc Limestone Has Been Greatly Altered To Heavy Garnet |
| conc_proc: | Copper Mountain Fault Carried Mineralizing Solutions Down To Lower Ore Bodies; Extensive Surface Leaching |
| ore_ctrl: | Irregular And Tabular Deposits Of Very Rich Oxidized Ores Along Contact Between Limestone And Porphyry, And Between Porphyry Dikes; Occur In Limestone And Shale As 5 More Or Less Regular Beds And Are Truncated By The Copper Mountain Fault |
| Reporter: | Orris, Greta J., Calder, Susan R. |
| hrock_unit: | Modoc Limestone;Morenci Shale |
| hrock_type: | Shale,Limestone |
| arock_unit: | Morenci Granite Porphyry;Coronado Quartzite |
| arock_type: | Quartz Monzonite,Plutonic Rock |
| Structure: | Copper Mountain Fault Separates Rich Disseminated Chalcocite Ore From Barren Porphyry, Ore Bodies Are Contained Between 2 Porphyry Dikes About 400 To 500 Ft Apart (Joy Dike And Hummingbird Dike) |
| tectonic: | Complex Copper Mountain Fault System With Substantial Vertical Displacement. Fault Blocks Generally Downthrown To Ne. |
| Year first produced: | 1882 |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1920 |
| disc_yr: | 1872 |
| discr: | W.L. Ryerson, John Swisshelm, Jim Bullard, Joe Yankie |
| References: |
- Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA
- Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT SHEET 840.
- Deposit:: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 149, P. 15.
- Deposit:: WATT, ROBERTA, 1956, HISTORY OF MORENCI ARIZONA, M.A. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
- Deposit:: BENNETT, K-C, 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: TUCSON, ARIZONA, M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.
- Other Database:: CIMRI
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