| Lat / long: | 31.4232, -110.69595 |
| Primary: | Lead, Silver |
| Secondary: | Zinc |
| Tertiary: | Gold |
| Ore: | Lead |
| Orebody form: | STREAKS |
| Discovery year: | 1945 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small |
| Development status: | Producer |
| 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 |
| 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. |