The American Eagle Mine is a copper mine located in Pinal county, Arizona at an elevation of 3,652 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 3,652 Feet (1,113 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 32.74944, -110.49556
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American Eagle Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: American Eagle Mine
Secondary: American Eagle Basin
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: Arizona
County: Pinal
District: Bunker Hill District
Land Status
Land ownership: Federal
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Block Faulting Trending Nnw
Type: L
Description: Strong Zone Of Faulting Striking E-W And Cut By Cross Faults Strik Ing N60e & N20e
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Sericite With Breccia Pipes & Dacite Porphyry; Potassic And Argill Ic, Lesser Propylitization, Silicification, And Tourmalinization
Rocks
Name: Dacite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Bornite
Gangue: Sericite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Tourmaline
Comments
Comment (Commodity): 3% BY WEIGHT TOTAL SULFIDES; IN SOME AREAS OF MINE NEAR 200 LEVEL RICHEST ORE AVERAGES 14% CU
Comment (Production): SIZE OF THE UNDERGROUND WORKINGS STILL OPEN INDICATES THAT AN APPR ECIABLE AMOUNT OF ORE WAS EXTRACTED
Comment (Deposit): WHERE VEIN IS 50 FT WIDE (300 LEVEL) ONLY 6 FT IS ORE GRADE. ROCK IS NOT LEACHED. WHERE VEIN IS 30-49 FT WIDE (200 LEVEL) 18 FT IS ORE GRADE NEAR TOP, 6-18 FT WIDE VEIN IS ALL ORE
Comment (Workings): STOPES CAVED, ADIT FLOODED
Comment (Geology): AT THE BLOWOUT A REPLACEMENT VEIN 6-18 FT WIDE LIES AGAINST FRESH DIORITE, THUS AN ATYPICAL CHIMNEY DEPOSIT. FURTHER, THE CHIMNEY IS MAI NLY CRACKED SERICITIZED DIORITE WITH ORE AT JOINT INTERSECTIONS RATHER THAN A BRECCIA.
Comment (Location): ON W SLOPE OF NORTH CENTRAL GALIURO MTS ON THE COPPER CREEK - SOMB RERO BUTTE ROAD, SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET SW OF COPPER CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1964
Comment (Deposit): THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M050121 WITH RE CORD M030467 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Deposit): WEED, 1913, MIN & ENG WORLD, V. 38, P. 375-378
Reference (Deposit): GUTHRIE & MOORE, 1978, AZ GEOL SOC DIGEST, V. 11, P. 25
Reference (Deposit): KUHN, 1941, ECON. GEOL. V. 36, NO. 5, P. 522
Reference (Production): SIMONS, 1954
Reference (Deposit): SIMONS, 1964, USGS PP 461
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