Mine detail: Lone Star

Previously called 'Safford Kennecott'

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Location

Lat / long: 32.93085, -109.62307

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Bornite, Tetrahedrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Other material: Brochantite, Chrysocolla, Cuprite, Malachite
Discovery year: 1950

Production

Operation type: Leach
Deposit type: Porphyry Cu-Au
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Safford Meta-volcanics
Host type:Andesite,Rhyolite,Quartz Latite,Dacite,Quartz Diorite
Associated rock:Lone Star Pluton
Associated type:Quartz Diorite

References

MRDSD000319
MAS40090003
DEP10209543
Reference{Deposit:: ROBINSON, R.F. AND COOK, A.,1966, THE SAFFORD COPPER DEPOSIT, LONE STAR MINING DISTRICT, GRAHAM COUNTY, ARIZONA, IN: GEOLOGY OF THE PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS Southwestern North America, EDITED BY TITLEY, S.R AND HICKS, C.L. THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS, TUCSON, ARIZ., P. 251-266}{Deposit:: SLOOP, JUNE 1,1967, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION AVAIL FROM CLEARINGHOUSE FOR FED SCIENT AND TECH INFO, SPRINGFIELD VA}{Deposit:: KENNECOTT INVESTIGATES SOLUTION MINING POTENTIAL OF DEEP CU DEPOSIT E/MJ SEPT 1975 VOL 176 NO 9 P37}{Deposit:: KENNECOTT TRYING SOLUTION MINING AT SAFFORD PROSPECT, PAY DIRT 8/25/75 P42}{Deposit:: HANSEN, S AND RABB, D , SEEK PROFITABILITY ANSWER TO NUCLEAR IN-SITU COPPER LEACHING AT SAFFORD, WORLD MINING, JAN 1978,V 4 NO 1, P 24-27}{Deposit:: SKILLING*MINING REVIEW, 11-30-96, P.6.}{Deposit:: SW PAY DIRT, 2-95, P.10A.}{Geology:: Langton, J.M., and Williams, S.A., 1982, Structural, petrological and mineralogical controls for the Dos Pobres orebody, Lone Star mining district, Graham County, Arizona, in Titley, S.R., ed., Advances in geology of the porphyry copper deposits, southwes}{Geology:: Williams, S.A., and Forrester, J.D., 1995, Characteristics of porphyry copper deposits, in Pierce, F.W., and Bolm, J.G., eds., Porphyry copper deposits of the American Cordillera: Tucson, Arizona Geological Society Digest 20, p. 21?34}{Ownership:: JUST SIMPLY KENNECOTT, SALT LAKE CITY TRIBUNE, MARCH 19,1983.}{Reserve-Resource:: WORLD MINING MAGAZINE. MAY 1981, P. 51.}{Reserve-Resource:: PHELPS DODGE CORP SEC FM 10-K REPT. 12/31/93., P. 10.}{Reserve-Resource:: PHELPS DODGE CORP., 1994 10-K, P.14.}{Reserve-Resource:: PHELPS DODGE CORP. 1995 ANNUAL REPORT, P.23.}
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