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Tyrone Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains District, Grant Co., New Mexico, USA

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Tyrone Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains District, Grant Co., New Mexico, USA

Photo: 2004 D. Schläfli
Latitude: 32°38'N
Longitude: 108°22'W
An open pit mine in a porphyry copper deposit. Located just SW of Silver City, NM. Owned by Phelps Dodge Corp. & Burro Chief Copper Co. (1985).
This mine has removed several other old underground mines in the area and covered others with the dumps.

Mineral List

Alunite
Autunite
Azurite
'Biotite'
Bornite
Brochantite
Cacoxenite
Chalcanthite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chalcosiderite
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysocolla
Copper
Corkite
Cornetite
Covellite
Crandallite
Cuprite
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Goethite
Hematite
var: Specularite
Hinsdalite
Jarosite
Kaolinite
Leucophosphite
Libethenite
'Limonite'
Ludlamite
Magnetite
Malachite
Metatorbernite
Molybdenite
Muscovite
var: Sericite

Plumbogummite
Pseudomalachite
Pyrite
Pyromorphite
Quartz
Sphalerite
Strengite
Tenorite
Torbernite
Treasurite
Turquoise
Wavellite
Woodhouseite
Wulfenite


50 entries listed. 45 valid minerals.

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References

- Mining Annual Review (1985): 55.
- Minerals Yearbook (1988) - Mining & Quarrying Trends: 31, 33
- Northrop (1996): Minerals of New Mexico, 3rd rev. ed.
- Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C. (2005): Porphyry Copper Deposits of the World: Database, Map, and Grade and Tonnage Models. USGS Open-File Report 05-1060.
- Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C. (2008): Porphyry copper deposits of the world: Database and grade and tonnage models, 2008. US Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1155.

- USGS Prof. Paper 122

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