StructureThick Diabase Sill Containing Inclusions Of Limestone. A Body Of Quartz Diorite Or Diabase 1/2 Mile In Diameter Outcrops Immediately S Of The Jumbo And Mc Morris Shafts., Fractures Cut The Diabase And Limestone, Ew And Nw Strikes, Main Zone Of Mineralization Is Ew. 1919 Article Calls Mineralized Zone A Contact Vein, With Diabase Hanging Wall And Quartz Diorite Footwall
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1875
Identification
Deposit ID10109788
MRDS IDM241232
Alternate namesInca, La Plata Shaft, Richmond BasinRichmond, Jumbo, Gila Monster, Helena and Nugget, Blue Quail
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates33.52341, -110.75763
References
ABGMT-USBM FILE DATAADMR MC MORRIS FILE AND BLUE QUAIL FILEBISHOP, O. M., 1935. GEOLGOY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE RICHMOND BASIN AREA, GILA COUNTY. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA M.S. THESIS.ARIZONA MINING JOURNAL, V 3 #6, P 15, NOVEMBER, 1919.