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Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10161929, MRDS ID #D000333, MAS ID #0040190009.
A Cu-Ag-Mo-Au mine located in the NW ¼ sec. 4 & the center of sec. 11, T.12S., R.8E. (Vaca Hills 15 minute topo map). Discovered 1909. First produced 1954. Owned by the American Smelting & Refining Co. (ASARCO). This mine is the open pit continuance of the former El Tiro and Oxide underground mines.
Mineralization is supergene enriched deposits of chalcocite with minor copper carbonates and silicates derived from sheeted, closely spaced, veinlets and seams of quartz, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and minor molybdenite in hydrothermally altered Laramide dacite porphyry and monzonite.
Workings include two open pit operations since 1954. Up through 1972, production has been some 59,800,000 million tons of ore averaging about 0.8% Cu, 0.06 oz. Ag/T, 0.004% Mo, and minor Au & Pb.
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