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Cuprite Group

Producer in Greenlee county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048293
MRDS ID M800427
Record type Site
Current site name Cuprite Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.39259, 33.13288 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position 2.0 MILES NW OF METCALF AT THE HEAD OF SANTA ROSA GULCH.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Coronado Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Francisco(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Greenlee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 003S 029E 32 NW OF NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • CUPRITE GROUP CLAIMS EXTEND INTO THE SOUTH HALF OF SECTION 29, THE SE CORNER OF SECTION 30, AND THE EAST HALF OF SECTION 31. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Dioptase Ore
Malachite Ore
Hematite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization Of Orthoclase; Formation Of Nw And Ne Trending Quartz Vein Systems

Analytical data

Result 1913 ASSAY VALUES RANGED FROM 15 TO 30% CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Precambrian Granite Basement
    Rock description Precambrian Granite Basement
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.39259, 33.13288
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Veins Form Quartz-Filled Streaks In Granite; No Porphyry Dikes
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ores Occur In Granite Along The Vein And In Quartz Accompanying The Deposit

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Width 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Surface Outcrops; Leached Zone Carries Isolated Pockets Of Rich Ore; Ne Trending Fissure Veins

Comments on the geologic information

  • SIMILAR TO CORONADO VEIN. QUARTZITIC VEINS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY IRREGULAR MASSES OF A FINE-GRAINED ROCK WHICH ARE POSSIBLY INCLUSIONS OF OLDER PRECAMBRIAN SEDIMENTS INTO INTRUSIVE GRANITE. AGE OF MINERALIZATION ROUGHLY CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH FISSURE VEIN FORMATION IN MORENCI GRANITE PORPHYRY TO THE S AND E.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875
Discoverer Isaac Stevens
Year of first production 1905
Year of last production 1916

Mining district

District name Copper Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 124.97M
    Overall depth 97.54M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDED 2 SHAFTS OF 30 FT AND 320 FT DEPTH, 2 TUNNELS OF 150 FT AND 260 FT LENGTH.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED E.T. MORTON, ISAAC N. STEVENS, CUPRITE COPPER CO; CUPRITE COPPER CO DISSOLVED IN 1925 WITH NO FURTHER RECORDS OF PROPERTY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, V. XV, P. 261, CUPRITE COPPER CO.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., 1914, THE COPPER HANDBOOK, V. XI, P. 303, CUPRITE COPPER CO.

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 43, P. 345-346.

  • Deposit

    BENNETT K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI OF ARIZONA, 153 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 16 PATENTED AND 10 UNPATENTED CLAIMS TOTALLING 490 ACRES. PROPERTY ALSO INCLUDED 2000 LINEAR FT OF STRONG HEMATITIC OUTCROPS WHICH RANGE FROM 5 TO 100 FT IN WIDTH.
Deposit SEE ALSO: SANTA ROSA GROUP. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit Discovery Year: LATE 1800'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1981 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

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