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Copper Giant Mine, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds, La Paz District (Weaver District), Dome Rock Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA

‡Ref.: Keith, Stanton B. (1978) State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 192, Index of Mining Properties in Yuma County, Arizona: 158 (Table 4).

Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 8 (Table 1).

Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10282504, MAS ID #0040120162.

A former underground Cu-Ag-Au mine located in the NW¼ sec. 11, T2N, R21W (protracted) (Dome Rock Mountains SW 7.5 minute topo map). Owned/operated at times, or in part, by Farrow; Barrett & Robinson; and, O'Brien.

Mineralization is gold-bearing quartz, impregnated with primary and secondary copper minerals, in lensing quartz fissure veins in Mesozoic schist having local thin beds of quartzite and marblized limestone.

Workings include a shaft(s). This claim was patented in 1901. It was worked in the early 1900's and late 1950's. It produced some 100 tons of ore averaging about 4% Cu, 3 oz. Ag/T and 0.2 oz. Au/T.





Map Reference: 33°31'55"N , 114°24'15"W

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Chalcocite
Chrysocolla
Malachite


3 entries listed. 3 valid minerals.

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