The Glory Hole Mine is a mine located in Pinal county, Arizona at an elevation of 4,239 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 4,239 Feet (1,292 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 32.75972, -110.49056
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Glory Hole Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Glory Hole Mine
Secondary: Globe
Commodity
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Arizona
County: Pinal
District: Bunker Hill District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
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: PIPE-LIKE
Structure
Type: R
Description: Nnw Trending Block Faults
Type: L
Description: Faults Striking E-W, N60e, & N10w; Breccia Pipe - Contact Shows No Evidence Of Movement
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Andesite Altered To Quartz & Sericite
Rocks
Name: Andesite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age in Years: 66.000000+-
Age Young: Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: IN GENERAL ASSAYS LESS THAN 3% CU WHERE FOUND BELOW 200 LEVEL IN O XIDIZED & LEACHED ZONE
Materials
Ore: Chalcocite
Gangue: Sericite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): MINE EXPLORES 3 CLOSELY SPACED BRECCIA PIPES. DIMENSIONS ABOVE AR E FOR MAIN PIPE. SECOND PIPE IS 100 FT ACROSS; THIRD IS SMALL. LAYERIN G OF FRAGMENTS DIPS N AT 25-35 DEG.
Comment (Workings): ONE SHAFT, SEVERAL LEVELS (ONLY ONE NOW ACCESSIBLE), NO STOPES
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979
Comment (Commodity): SPARSE SUPERGENE CU STAINING. LARGELY DEVOID OF CU MINERALS. WEED (1913) REPORTED SULFIDE ORE OF GOOD GRADE ON 200 LEVEL
Comment (Deposit): THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M050125 WITH RE CORD M000721 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Geology): FRACTURED GLORY HOLE VOLCANICS ARE IN SHARP, NEARLY VERTICAL, CURV ED CONTACT WITH FE & CU STAINED BRECCIA. BRECCIA IS UNSORTED WITH PLAT Y FRAGMENTS 1-6 IN. AND BLOCKS 1-10 FT. NO FINE-GRAINED MATRIX; VOIDS
References
Reference (Deposit): GUTHRIE & MOORE, 1978, AZ GEOL SOC DIGEST V. 11, P. 25-31
Reference (Deposit): SIMONS, 1964, USGS PP 461
Reference (Deposit): WEED, 1913, MIN & ENG WORLD, V. 38, P. 375-378
Reference (Deposit): KUHN, 1941, ECON GEOL, V. 36, NO. 5, P. 512-538
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