A deposit that crops out along the crest of Buckeye Mountain, on the south side of Copper Gulch, about ¾ miles SE of Copper Hill ghost town. NOTE: The coordinates provided are for Buckeye Mountain since the deposit outcrops on the crest of this feature.
The general strike of the vein is about N65E, roughly parallel to the Old Dominion vein; but its dip is 60 to 80NW, whereas the Old Dominion vein dips SE. The vein fault has a reverse throw of 100 to 150 feet, that is, the hanging wall block on the NW side has been elevated with respect to the footwall block.
Along the outcrop both walls of the vein are of Troy quartzite, which overlies a thick diabase sikll. The sill was intruded near the base of the Troy quartzite, in some places above and in others below remnants of the Precambrian basalt flows that underlie the old erosion surface on which the Troy was deposited. On the NE flank of Buckeye Mountain, basalt crops out both above and below the diabase sill.
References
Peterson, N.P. (1962), Geology and ore deposits of the Globe-Miami District, Arizona, USGS PP 342: 112-114.
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