Arizona · Yavapai County
Producer
Mountain Springs Mine
Yavapai County, Arizona, United States
Silver
Zinc
Lead
Copper
Gold
Molybdenum
Uranium
Thorium
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Commodities
Primary
Silver, Zinc, Lead
Secondary
Copper, Gold
Tertiary
Molybdenum, Uranium, Thorium
Commodity type
M
Deposit
Deposit type
Vein
Deposit size
S
Workings
Underground
Orebody form
TABULAR
Ore control
Faulting, Shearing
Materials
Ore minerals
Anglesite, Chrysocolla, Galena, Hemimorphite, Malachite, Sphalerite, Wulfenite
Gangue
Quartz
Other materials
Pyrite
Geology
Host rock
Quartz Monzonite,Diorite,Rhyolite · Butte Falls Tuff;Dick Rhyolite
Associated rock
Quartz Monzonite,Diorite,Rhyolite · Diorite Porphyry;Aplite
Structure
Foliation In Metavolcanic Rocks Trends N10e To N40e, Veins Parallel Dikes And Foliation. Mountain Spring Fault
Alteration
None
Economic & production
Development status
Producer
First production
1941
Last production
1951
Identification
Deposit ID
10048140
MRDS ID
M800182
Region
NA
Data score
B
Coordinates
34.54948, -113.22216
References
AZ DEPT MIN RESOURCES FILE DATAABM BULL 156, PART 1 P. 136-137USGS P.P. 278 P. 93 AND GEOLOGIC MAPUS-AEC PRR-AP-77 (1953)