Description
Corporate Group: Hernandez Family (1932); Climax Claim: Victoriano Dominguez And Diego Hernandez (1951) ?
Commodities
PrimaryGold, Manganese
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeS
WorkingsSurface/Underground
Orebody formIRREGULAR
Ore controlManganese Minerals Confined To Irregular Bands Within A Prominent Vertical Quartz Vein That Cuts Diorite Porphyry; Gold Occurs In Pockets Along Irregular Veins In The Porphyry Near The Contact Between Pinkard Formation Shales And Diorite Porphyry
Materials
Ore mineralsPyrolusite
GangueBiotite, Hornblende, Labradorite, Limonite
Geology
Host rockDiorite · Pinkard Formation
Associated rockDiorite · Morenci Granite Porphyry
StructureDiorite Porphyry Cut By Many Irregular And Ne-Trending Fissure Veins; Veins Are Narrow, Small, And Do Not Attain Great Depths, Ne-Trending Fissure Vein In Southernmost Extension Of Main Morenci Porphyry Mass
Tectonic settingThe Southern Of 2 Well-Defined Fissure Planes In Silver Creek Basin, Separating Cretaceous Sandstone And Shale From Porphyry; Downthrow On The West About 200 Ft
AlterationSericitization Of Diorite-Porphyry Wall Rock
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Discovery year1932
Identification
Deposit ID10048294
MRDS IDM800426
Alternate namesCorporate Group, Climax Claim
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates33.05288, -109.38926
References
USBM INF CIRC 7990, P. 103.USBM FILES; CORPORATE GROUP, CLIMAX CLAIM.USGS PP 43, P. 229-230, 296.USGS BULL 1355, P. 15-16.ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 137, P. 185.BENNETT, K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORE NCI METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA=M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.CIMRIUSBM 1.C. 7990, PAGE 103