The Unnamed Copper Deposit is a copper mine located in Pinal county, Arizona.
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Unnamed Copper Deposit MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed Copper Deposit
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Arizona
County: Pinal
District: Owl Head District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
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: IRREGULAR
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Propylitic & Py-Cp-Gossan & Specularite Gossan
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Chrysocolla
Gangue: Hematite
Gangue: Specularite
Gangue: Epidote
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): MINERALIZED DISCONTINUOUS QUARTZ VEINS. QUARTZ VEINS "MINED OUT" AND NO LONGER EXPOSED IN WORKINGS. ALTERED WALL ROCK, WHERE PRESENT, APPEARS TO BE THE RESULT OF SURFICIAL WEATHERING RATHER THAN HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION. QUARTZ VEINS OFTEN BRECCIATED AND RECEMENTED WITH QUARTZ AND (OR) SPECULARITE. SULFIDE MINERALS APPARENTLY ACCOMPANIED SPECULARITE.
Comment (Workings): THREE PROSPECT PITS
References
Reference (Deposit): BANKS, N., DOCKTOR, R., AND BRISKEY, J., 1976, MAPS OF MINES ETC, IN THE TORTOLITA MTNS QUAD, MAP A, OPEN FILE
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