San Manuel orebody, San Manuel Mine (Apex Lead & Vanadium Mining Corp Mine; Quarelli group), San Manuel, San Manuel District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA

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This is the upper segment of the original monolithic San Manuel orebody. The present San Manuel orebody outcrops and contains an oxidized zone, while the Kalamazoo orebody (downfaulted segment) now tops out about 2,600 feet below surface.

References

Chapman, T.L. (1947), San Manuel copper deposit, Pinal Co., Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 4108.

Galbraith, F.W. (1947), Minerals of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 153: 19.

Schwartz, G.M. (1947), Hydrothermal alteration in the 'porphyry copper' deposits, Economic Geology: 42: 319-352.

Lovering, T.S. (1948), Geothermal gradients, recent climate changes, and rate of sulphide oxidation in the San Manuel district, Arizona, Economic Geology: 43: 1-20.

Schwartz, G.M. (1949), Oxidation and enrichment in the San Manuel copper deposit, Arizona, Economic Geology: 44: 253-277;

Lovering, T.S., et al (1950), Dispersion of copper from the San Manuel copper deposit, Pinal Co., Arizona, Economic Geology: 45: 493-514.

Schwartz, G.M. (1953), Geology of the San Manuel Copper Deposit, Arizona, USGS PP 256.

Schwartz, G.M. (1958), Alteration of biotite under mesothermal conditions, Econmic Geology: 53: 164-177.

Creasey, S.C, (1959), Some phase relations in the hydrothermally altered rocks of porphyry copper deposits, Economic Geology: 54: 351-373.

Bideaux, R.A., et al (1960), Some new occurrences of minerals of Arizona, Arizona Geological Society Digest: 3: 53-56.

Thomas, L.A. (1966), Geology of the San Manuel ore body, in S.R. Titley and C.L. Hicks (editors), Geology of the porphyry copper deposits, southwestern North America, University of Arizona Press, Tucson: 133-142.

Lowell, J.D. (1968), Geology of the Kalamazoo orebody, San Manuel district, Arizona, Economic Geology: 63: 645-654.

Anthony, J.W. & W.J. McLean (1976), Jurbanite, a new post-mining aluminum sulfate mineral from San Manuel, Arizona, American Mineralogist: 61: 1-4.

Welty, J.W. (1988) Strontium isotopic compositions of igneous rocks at the San Manuel-Kalamazoo porphyry copper deposit, Pinal County, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. prepublication manuscript, 27 p.

Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 105, 107, 113, 121, 126, 132, 143, 164, 167, 174, 179, 186, 191, 197, 203, 213, 215, 216, 233, 251, 254, 257, 262, 264, 266, 287, 302, 309, 330, 341, 359, 370, 380, 391, 432.

Mineral List

Allophane Alunite Anhydrite Atacamite Azurite Beidellite Biotite Bornite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group'

Chrysocolla Clinozoisite Copper Covellite Cuprite Dickite Endellite Epidote Epsomite Goethite Hexahydrite

Hydrobiotite 'Hydromuscovite' Illite Jarosite Jurbanite (TL) Kaolinite Leucoxene Malachite Molybdenite Muscovite var: Sericite Pickeringite

Plancheite Pyrite Quartz Rutile Shattuckite Siderite Starkeyite Tenorite Zoisite Zunyite

43 entries listed. 37 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).