Mine detail: Gold Belt Mines

Previously called 'Eagle Gold and Copper ClaimsDover Copper Group'

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Location

Lat / long:

33.08343, -109.42398

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Gold, Silver, Lead, Manganese
Tertiary:	Zinc
Ore:	Chalcocite, Chrysocolla, Galena, Malachite, Pyrolusite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Limonite
Orebody form:	LINEAR
Discovery year:	1904

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1907
Last production ended:	1947

Geology

Host type:	Granite
Associated rock:	Coronado Quartzite;Gila Conglomerate (Associated With Volcanic Flows)
Associated type:	Basalt
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trending Step-Faults; Mines Are Approximateley 0.25 Mile South Of Copperplate Fault; Fault Block Under Gold Belt Property Has Been Upthrown 1500 Ft, Gold Belt Vein Paralleling Granite Prophyry Dike
Tectonic:	Southeastern Arizona Tertiary Volcanic Flow Region
Alteration processes:	Oxidation Forming Gossans Over Central Orebody

References

MRDS	M800410
DEP	10109874
Reference	{Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT SHEET 840}{Deposit:: WEED, W.H., 1918, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. X111, EAGLE GOLD AND COPPER MINING CO, PAGE 473}{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA}{Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPING FILE, DOVER COPPER MINING CO}{Deposit:: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA}{Deposit:: USGS PP 43}{Deposit:: MINING REPORTER, VOL. L111, NO 16 (APRIL 19, 1906), PAGES 386-390, REVIVAL OF GOLD MINING IN CLIFTON-MORENCI, ARIZONA, DISTRICT}{Deposit:: USGS BULLETIN 1355, P. 15-16}{Deposit:: BENNETT, 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE CO., AZ: MS THESIS UNIV OF AZ}
Reporter	Calder, Susan R.