Commodities
PrimaryLead, Silver
SecondaryZinc
TertiaryGold
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeS
Orebody formSTREAKS
Ore controlNorth, Or Hanging Wall Side, Of E-W Mowry Fault, As Fracture Fillings In Pyroxene Monzonite And As Contact Fissure Deposits Between Limestone And Monzonite
Geology
Host rockPyroxenite
Associated rockQuartz Monzonite
StructureCroppings Of Manganese And Iron Oxides, Kaolin And Argentiferous Galena Extend Interruptedly Along Contact Fissure Of Mowry Fault For 1/2 Mile Or More, Deposits Formed By Same Intrusive Dike Of Quartz Monzonite That Uptilted Limestone Beds Containing The Mowry Deposits; Pyroxene Monzonite Similarly Uptilted, Creating Parallel Fractures Along Which Mineralization Occurred
Tectonic settingMowry Mine Fault Block; Downthrow To North
AlterationLimestone Is Highly Sericitized, Brecciated And Stained With Mn And Fe; Feldspars Are Greatly Kaolinized And Altered To Epidote
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
Discovery year1945
Identification
Deposit ID10109793
MRDS IDM241261
Alternate namesHay Property
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates31.4232, -110.69595
References
USBM FILES, PHOENIX MINEADMR FILE DATA, PHOENIX MINESMITH, GEORGE E., 1956 THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MOWRY MINE AREA, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 44 PP.USGS BULL 582, P. 296-306USGS MAP I-762 (1=48000)PROUT, J.W., 1907, THE SILVER-LEAD DEPOSITS OF THE MOWRY MINE, MOWRY, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 18 PP.BRINSMADE, R.B., 1907, LEAD-SILVER DEPOSITS OF MOWRY, ARIZONA; MINES AND MINERALS, VOL. 27, NO. 12, P. 529-531