Buckeye Mine (Buckeye Copper Mine), Spring Mountain, Webb District, Gila Bend Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
‡Ref.: Cheeseman, R.J. (1974), Geology of the Webb Mountain district, Gila Bend Mountains, Maricopa County, unpublished MS. thesis, Northern Arizona University.
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, AZ Dept. Mines & Min. Resources Open File Rept. 92-10: 9 (Table 1).
Arizona Bureau of Geology in. Technical clippings file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources (ADMR) file data.
USGS 15 minute Woolsey Peak map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources (ADMR) Buckeye Copper file.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10046345; and Dep. ID #10283279.
Yale Peabody GNIS database (NOTE: this database is derived from USGS 1:24,000 topographic map data).
A former underground Cu-Ag-Au-U mine located in the NE¼ sec. 28, T.2N., R.6W. (Woolsey Peak 15 minute topo map).
Mineralization is a vein deposit and includes secondary copper minerals. Locally metamorphic rocks are domed and faulted by a pluton in the mine area. There is minor displacement on the faults. NE foliation on the schist, quartz monzonite and quartz diorite intrusives exist ½ mile west of the mine.
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Map Reference: 33°12'5"N , 112°52'7"W
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