The Mammoth Mine is a copper and silver mine located in Pima county, Arizona.
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Mine Info
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Mammoth Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Mammoth Mine
Secondary: Old Boot
Secondary: Imperial
Secondary: Union
Secondary: Page
Secondary: Southern Beauty
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Lead
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Location
State: Arizona
County: Pima
District: Silver Bell District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Year: 1931
Time Period: 1870-1931
Material type: ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^3% Cu, 1 Oz/T Ag, Minor Pb, Zn, Au
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1865
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: FISSURE VEINS, IRREGULAR DISSEMINATIONS
Structure
Type: L
Description: Major Fault Zone
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Hydrothermal Metasomatism
Rocks
Name: Dacite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Fluorite
Gangue: Barite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Workings): WORKED AS AN UNDERGROUND MINE FROM 1870'S TO 1931
Comment (Deposit): THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M050652 WITH RE CORD M030550 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Commodity): GREEN FLUORITE
Comment (Development): OPERATORS INCLUDED HUACHUCA MINING & SMELTING CO, PIMA COUNTY MIN ING AND SMELTING CO, SILVER BELL MINING CO, ALBERT STEINFELD CO, IMPER IAL COPPER CO, ASARCO
Comment (Geology): TACTITE PRESENT.
References
Reference (Deposit): RICHARD & COURTRIGHT, 1966, IN TITLEY & HICKS, UNIV OF AZ PRESS.
Reference (Production): KEITH, 1974.
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Deposit): PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERALS CARD FILE.
Reference (Deposit): PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.
Reference (Deposit): ELEVATORSKI, 1971, ADMR, ARIZONA FLUORSPAR.
Reference (Deposit): KERR, 1951, GSA BULL 62.
Reference (Deposit): KEITH, 1974, ABM BULL 189, P. 143.
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