Commodities
PrimaryCopper
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeVein
Deposit sizeS
WorkingsUnderground
Orebody formTABULAR
Ore controlNe Trending Fissure Vein Follows Main Contact Between Limestone And 200 Ft Thick Porphyry Dike; Ore Bodies Chiefly Occur In Limestone And Not In Porphyry
Materials
Ore mineralsChrysocolla
GangueMalachite
Geology
Host rockLimestone · Longfellow Limestone
Associated rockPlutonic Rock · Morenci Granite Porphyry
StructureNormal Faulting Confined To Pre-Tertiary Rocks, Vicinity Is Extensively Faulted ; At The Ne End Of The Tunnel, The Main Fissure Appears To Break Into The Porphyry And Is Complicated By Faulting
Tectonic settingMetcalf Fault Block
AlterationPure Kaolin Occurs, No Sulfide Ore Is Present
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1890
Discovery year1872
Identification
Deposit ID10027006
MRDS IDM001702
Alternate namesArizona Copper Co Group
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates33.13871, -109.35926
References
LINDGREN, W., 1905 , THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE CLIFTON-MORENCI DISTRICT, ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. PROFESSIONAL PAPER 43 , P. 353GALBRAITH, MINERALS OF ARIZONA, ARIZ BUREAU OF MINES GEOLOGICAL SERIES NO 15, BULL 149BLM DISTRICT SHEET 837ABGMT-USBM FILE DATAABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, ARIZONA COPPER CO LTDSTEVENS, 1911, THE COPPER HANDBOOK, V. 10, P. 356, ARIZONA COPPER CO LTDBENNETT, 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.