The Senator Morgan Mine is a copper mine located in Pima county, Arizona at an elevation of 3,599 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 3,599 Feet (1,097 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 31.88667, -111.07556
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Senator Morgan Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Senator Morgan Mine
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Tungsten
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Gold
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Arizona
County: Pima
District: Pima District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Baxter
Home Office: Twin Buttes
Production
Year: 1918
Time Period: 1890-1918
Material type: CU ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^4% Cu, 9 Oz/T Ag, Minor Zn, Au
Year: 1943
Time Period: 1942-1943
Material type: W ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^1.25% Wo3
Year: 1913
Time Period: 1906-1913
Material type: CU
Description: Cp_Grade: ^2 Oz/T Ag
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1903
Year Last Production: 1918
Discovery Year: 1875
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: SHORT LENSES
Structure
Type: L
Description: Shearing Parallel To And In Veins, Nw Faulting With Some Ne Faulti Ng
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Garnetized, Very Little Oxidized
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: ORE 0.805% WO3 PRODUCED FLOATATION CONCENTRATE S ASSAYING 62.08% WO3 WITH A RECOVERY OF 92.5%
Analytical Data: 2 OZ/T AG REPORTED
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Powellite
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Diopside
Gangue: Tremolite
Gangue: Chlorite
Gangue: Hedenbergite
Comments
Comment (Production): SCHEELITE WAS MINED FROM A 40-FT SHAFT 175 FT SW OF MORGAN SHAFT.
Comment (Development): OPERATORS INCLUDED TWIN BUTTES MINING AND SMELTING CO, J.A. POIND EXTER
Comment (Deposit): COPPER MINERALIZATION OCCURS ALONG FRACTURE ZONE, AND EXTENDS DOW N TO 900 FT WHERE MINABLE GRADE ORE RUNS OUT OR GRANITE IS ENCOUNTERED . W ORE OCCURS IN WNW STRIKING QUARTZ FISSURE VEINS THAT EXTEND UP TO 50 FT LONG AND 10 FT WIDE. THESE VEINS OCCUR IN CRET (?) QUARTZITE AND SHALES FOR 600 FT.
Comment (Workings): DEEP SHAFT FOR COPPER PRODUCTION. SEVERAL TRENCHES AND PROSPECT P ITS FOR TUNGSTEN. NO WORK ON W OR CU SINCE 1943
Comment (Geology): NE FRACTURE ZONE SPARSELY MINERALIZED
Comment (Deposit): THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M050383 WITH RECORD M030539 OF JAN WILT AND RECORD D000819 OF JAMES ELLIOT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: 1875 OR 1876
References
Reference (Deposit): MANUGA, 1942, PHD THESIS, UNIV OF AZ
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, S. AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, USGS MAP MR-25.
Reference (Deposit): WHITCOMB, 1948, MS THESIS, UNIV OF AZ
Reference (Deposit): BROWN, 1926, MS THESIS, UNIV OF AZ
Reference (Deposit): DALE, ET AL, 1960, USBM RI 5650
Reference (Deposit): KEITH, 1974, ABM BULL 189, P. 138
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Production): DALE, 1960; KEITH, 1974
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