CalciteEast Helvetia deposit, Rosemont, Helvetia-Rosemont District, Santa Rita Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA
Photo: Geoffrey Krasnov Latitude: 31°49'59"N
Longitude: 110°45'33"W
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MRDS database Dep. ID file #10026900, MRDS ID #M000917; and, Dep. ID #10210685, MRDS ID #D000804, MAS ID #0040190010.
A former small surface Cu-Ag-Mo-Au mine located in the SE¼ sec. 25 and the NE¼ sec. 36, T18S, R15E (Sahuarita 15 minute topo map), 50 km SE of Tucson. Produced 1875-1959. Discovered 1870. First produced 1890. Owned/operated by Anamax Mining Co., then ASARCO (1988- ?). ASARCO Inc. acquired the property as a 'long-term copper reserve" and has no immediate plans to develop it.
Mineralizarion is hosted in Horqulla Limestone; the Scherrer Formation, Concha Limestone; and the Bisbee Group. Ore control was intrusions, lithology and limestone skarns. Ore concentration was secondary enrichment of only local importance. Ore body depth to top is 91.44 meters. Alteration included skarnification, pyritization, silicification and argillization. Associated rock units include the Greaterville Intrusives. Overlain by 300 feet of Cretaceous sediments on the west and by 1,200 feet on the east. The porphyry is not very mineralized. Mineralization includes secondary copper minerals.
Local structures include a flat thrust fault separating Paleozoic limestones from overlying Bisbee Group rocks.
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