Description
George Clark And J. Peterson
Commodities
PrimaryLead, Silver, Copper
SecondaryZinc, Gold
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeS
WorkingsUnderground
Orebody formTABULAR
Ore controlOre Seams, Shoots And Stringers In 25 Ft. Lode Within Quartz Monzonite
Materials
Ore mineralsBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
GangueBarite, Calcite, Quartz
Geology
Host rockQuartz Monzonite · Piper Gulch Monzonite
Associated rockGranite · Squaw Gulch Granite
StructureNe - Trending Quartz Fissure Veins Cutting Quartz Monzonite And Along Contact Between Monzonite And Nearby Rhyolite Intrusions, Quartz Monzonite Is Intruded And Overlain By Rhyolite In Vicinity
Tectonic settingMount Wrightson Fault Block
AlterationLode Consists Mainly Of Crushed And Altered Country Rock, Some Of It Altered To Kaolin
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1912
Last production1951
Discovery year1906
Identification
Deposit ID10046336
MRDS IDM241322
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates31.62457, -110.82262
References
USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA.USBM-FILE DATA-CLUSTER #118, AMERICAN BOY MINE.ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE DATA, AMERICAN BOY MINE.ADMR FILE DATA, AMERICAN BOY MINE.USGS BULL 582, P. 229-230.ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 88.BLM DISTRICT SHEET #687.ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH.USGS MAP I-614USGS PP 748, P. 14-15ROHRBACHER, ROBERT G., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE TEMPORAL GULCH-MANSFIELD CANYON AREA, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, P. 69-70.CIMRI