Mine detail: Phoenix Mine

Previously called 'Hay Property'

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Location

Lat / long:

31.4232, -110.69595

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead, Silver
Secondary:	Zinc
Tertiary:	Gold
Ore:	Lead
Orebody form:	STREAKS
Discovery year:	1945

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Pyroxenite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite
Structure:	Croppings Of Manganese And Iron Oxides, Kaolin And Argentiferous Galena Extend Interruptedly Along Contact Fissure Of Mowry Fault For 1/2 Mile Or More, Deposits Formed By Same Intrusive Dike Of Quartz Monzonite That Uptilted Limestone Beds Containing The Mowry Deposits; Pyroxene Monzonite Similarly Uptilted, Creating Parallel Fractures Along Which Mineralization Occurred
Tectonic:	Mowry Mine Fault Block; Downthrow To North
Alteration processes:	Limestone Is Highly Sericitized, Brecciated And Stained With Mn And Fe; Feldspars Are Greatly Kaolinized And Altered To Epidote

References

MRDS	M241261
DEP	10109793
Reference	{Deposit:: USBM FILES, PHOENIX MINE}{Deposit:: ADMR FILE DATA, PHOENIX MINE}{Deposit:: SMITH, GEORGE E., 1956 THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MOWRY MINE AREA, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 44 PP.}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 582, P. 296-306}{Deposit:: USGS MAP I-762 (1=48000)}{Deposit:: PROUT, J.W., 1907, THE SILVER-LEAD DEPOSITS OF THE MOWRY MINE, MOWRY, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 18 PP.}{Deposit:: BRINSMADE, R.B., 1907, LEAD-SILVER DEPOSITS OF MOWRY, ARIZONA; MINES AND MINERALS, VOL. 27, NO. 12, P. 529-531}
Reporter	Calder, Susan R.