| Deposit ID | 10400395 |
|---|---|
| Record type | Deposit |
| Current site name | Superior East |
| Geographic coordinates: | -110.998, 33.378 (WGS84) |
|---|
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Pinal(county)
Arizona(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Inspiration(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Globe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Upper Salt(hydrologic unit)
Salt(hydrologic accounting unit)
Salt(hydrologic subregion)
Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Tonto National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Arizona | Pinal |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Primary |
| Molybdenum | Secondary |
| Silver | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Chalcocite | Ore |
| Bornite | Ore |
| Chalcopyrite | Ore |
| Pyrite | Ore |
| Model code | 53 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 17 |
| Deposit model name | Porphyry Cu |
| Mark3 model number | 4 |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Schist | ||
| Rock type qualifier | sequence of coarse grained quartz-muscovite schist, fine grained quartz-sericite-chlorite schist and some fine grained amphibole schist. | ||
| Rock unit name | Pinal Schist | ||
| |||
| Host or associated | Associated | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite | ||
| Rock type qualifier | porphyritic quartz-monzonite (adamellite), granodiorite, quartz-monzonite, and granite porphyry. | ||
| Rock unit name | Schultze Granite | ||
| |||
| (1) | -110.998, 33.378 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure name | prominent ENE trending structural zone |
| Type of structure | Regional |
| Structure name | major north-west trending structural zone |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure name | basin and range fault down dropped into a basin/graben |
| General form | Irregular |
|---|---|
| Depth to top | 975.36M |
| Depth to bottom | 1371.6M |
| Development status | Prospect |
|---|---|
| Significant | Yes |
| Discovery year | 1972 |
| Type | In-situ | ||||||||||||||
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| Estimate year | 1995 | ||||||||||||||
| Inferred | 200000000mt ore | ||||||||||||||
| Remarks | Includes 100 Mt 1.1% Cu core\n(Sell, 1995) | ||||||||||||||
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Peterson, N P, 1962, Geology and Ore Deposits Of The Globe-Miami district, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 342, 151 p.
Maher, D.J., Stavast, W.J.A., Barton, M.D., and Seedorff, E., 2005, A view of the roots of a productive Laramide porphyry copper system exposed in the Globe-Miami district, Arizona [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 7, p. 164
Hammer and Peterson, 1968
Breitrick and Lenzi, 1987
Stavast, 2006
Sell, J.D., 1995, Discovery of a deep (3500 feet) unexposed porphyry copper deposit at Superior East, Pinal County, Arizona: Arizona Geological Society Digest 20, p. 373?395
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 17-JUN-10 | W. D. Heran | U.S. Geological Survey |
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