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White Tail Deer Mine (Whitetail Mine), Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Hetaerolite
White Tail Deer Mine, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Photo: Michael Cline
Latitude: 31°25'1"N
Longitude: 109°55'5"W
‡Ref.: Ransome, F.L. (1904) Bisbee Folio, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Atlas of the United States, Folio no. 112, 17 p. [oversized], 10 sheets, scales 1:12,000 and 1:62,500 [reprinted 1914, with supplement, 19 p., oversized, 8 sheets, scales 1:12,000 and 1:62,500].

Ransome, F.L. (1904), The geology and ore deposits of the Bisbee quadrangle, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 21, 168 p., 3 sheets, scales 1:12,000 and 1:62,500: 118.

Bonillas, et al (1916): 338.

Trischka, C. (1938), Bisbee district, in Some Arizona ore deposits, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 145: 38.

Bryant, D.G. & R.A. Metz (1966), Geology and ore deposits of the Warren mining district, in Titley, S.R. and Hicks, C.L., eds., Geology of the porphyry copper deposits, southwestern North America, University of Arizona Press: 200.

Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 90 (Table 4).

Wilson, W.E. (1987b), What's new in minerals? The 79 Mine aurichalcite story, Mineralogical Record: 18: 299-301.

Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 6 (Table 1).

Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 144, 244, 249, 312.

Arizona Bureau of Mines files.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027131, MRDS ID #M002193; and, Dep. ID #10160862, MAS ID #0040030570.

A former small surface and underground Cu-Ag-Au mine located in West-central (SW¼SW¼NW¼) sec. 21, T.23S., R.24E. (Bisbee 7.5 minute topo map), on private land. Owned by the Phelps Dodge Corp.

Mineralization is a replacement deposit with oxidized copper ores in irregular replacement bodies in the upper part of the Cambrian Abrigo Limestone along strong faulting. The ore bodies are near dikes and sills, and faulting and associated brecciation. Ore concentration was bornite replacing pyrite. Alteration was gossan with Mn and Fe oxides induced by hydrothermal metamorphism. An associated rock unit is the Sacramento Hill Stock.

Local structures include common pre-mineralization faulting and tilting. The main fault directions are N10W to N40E and S30W to N50W.

Workings include an open cut and a shaft(s). Several thousand tons of ore were produced in the late 1800's. Production from this mine was included under the Copper Queen Branch of Phelps Dodge in USBM-ABGMT files.

Deposit 2 SEE PHELPS-DODGE COPPER QUEEN BR. SEC. 8, 9, 16, 17, T. 23 S., R. 24E.

Mineral List

Bornite
Braunite
Calcite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Coronadite
Hausmannite
Hetaerolite
Hübnerite
Malachite
Neltnerite
Pyrite
Tilasite


13 entries listed. 13 valid minerals.

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