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Cuprite Mine group, Beuhman Hill, Mount Fagan, Helvetia-Rosemont District, Santa Rita Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 31°55'40"N
Longitude: 110°42'34"W
‡Ref.: Schrader, F.C. (1915) Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, with contributions by J.M. Hill: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 582, 373 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:125,000: 134-136.

Lee, C.A., and Borland, G.C. (1935) The geology and ore deposits of the Cuprite mining district: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. thesis, 54 p.

Keith, Stanton B. (1974), AZ Bur. of Geol. & Min. Technology, Geol. Survey Br. Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, AZ: 125 (Table 4).

USGS Empire Mountains Quadragle topo map.

Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10137563, MRDS ID #M050490, MAS ID #0040190188.

A former underground Cu-Ag-Mo-Zn-Pb mine group located in the SW¼NE¼NW ¼ sec. 28, T.17S., R.16E., on land of unknown status. Owned by the Cuprite Mining & Smelting Co.

Mineralization is copper sulfides with minor carbonates, silicates, and oxides and spotty minor molybdenum and base metal sulfides in irregular pyrometasomatic replacement deposits in silicated PAleozoic marble and along fault and fracture zones in overlying Cretaceous sediments in a thrust-faulted and strongly fractured block in contact with Laramide intrusive.

Workings include shaft and tunnel operations. Produced sporadically from 1899 to 1915 some 2,000 tons of ore avaraging about 6% Cu and 0.6 oz. Ag/T.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Azurite
Bornite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chrysocolla
Epidote
Galena
'Garnet'
Limonite
Magnetite
Malachite
Molybdenite
Pyrite
Sphalerite
Tenorite
Wollastonite


18 entries listed. 14 valid minerals.

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