The Brunswick Mine is a copper mine located in Greenlee county, Arizona at an elevation of 4,902 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: 4,902 Feet (1,494 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 33.13306, -109.36500
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Brunswick Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Brunswick Mine
Secondary: Stevens Lease
Secondary: Stevens Group Mine
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Arizona
County: Greenlee
District: Copper Mountain 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: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Phelps Dodge Corp., Morenci Branch )
Years: 1921 -
Owner Name: Harles E Stevens Jr
Years: 1957 - 1970
Production
Year: 1905
Time Period: 1900 - 1905
Material type: ORE-CU AVG
Description: Cp_Grade: ^30 % Cu
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1875
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: IRREGULAR, PODS
Structure
Type: R
Description: Normal Faulting Confined To Pre-Tertiary Rocks, With Vertical Displacement Of 2000 Ft
Type: L
Description: Diabase Dike Intrudes Graite And Is Step-Faulted To East; Main Ore Deposits Are Confined To 20ne Of Crushed Granite Between Country Rock And Diabase Dike
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Minor
Rocks
Name: Diabase
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Diabase
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Cuprite
Comments
Comment (Production): USGS PROF PAPER 43 P. 353, ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION MIGHT BE INCLUDED UNDER STEVENS LEASE.
Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: LATE 1800'S
Comment (Deposit): 2 PATENTED CLAIMS (STELLA, LITTLE STELLA)
Comment (Development): OWNERS INCLUDED SHANNON COPPER CO., ARIZONA COPPER CO., LTD; OPERATORS INCLUDED CHARLES E. STEVENS, JR., STEVENS COPPER MINING CO., JESUS GOMEZ, R.L. NARDELLI
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDED 2 TUNNELS A FEW HUNDRED FEET LONG, THE LOWER ONE LOCATED ALMOST IN THE BOTTOM OF GARFIELD GULCH; ONE WINZE 60 FT DEEP, EXPOSING GOOD CHALCOCITE ORE.
Comment (Geology): THE DIABASE DIKE RARELY CONTAINS MUCH ORE. THE VEIN MATERIAL CONSISTS LARGELY OF CRUSHED AND ALTERED GRANITE. NEAR THE END OF THE TUNNEL THE VEIN APPEARS TO FORK, WITH SOME DIABASE OCCURRING ALONG EACH BRANCH.
Comment (Commodity): ABOVE THE LOWER TUNNEL, THE ORE CONSISTS OF ABOUT 25 % CHALCOCITE AND 75 % MALACHITE.
Comment (Location): LOCATED IN GARFIELD GULCH, 0.25 MILE ABOVE THE MOUTH. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)
References
Reference (Deposit): LINDGREN, W., 1905, THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE CLIFTON-MORENCI DISTRICT, ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. PROFESSIONAL PAPER 43, P. 353.
Reference (Deposit): USBM FILES, UNDER STEVENS GROUP.
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.
Reference (Deposit): ARIZ. DEPT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA, UNDER STEVENS MINE.
Reference (Deposit): BLM DISTRICT SHEET 837.
Reference (Deposit): BENNETT, 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Production): U.S.G.S. P.P. 43 , P. 253 .
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