Deposit with commodities copper, molybdenum, silver, zinc, rhenium
More information at and near this site: Re-AZ00026
Feature ID | Re-Mo00313 |
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Geographic coordinates | -111.032098, 31.898378 |
Point definition | Center of orebody |
Reference | Barter and Kelly (1982); Figure 20.2 Date: 1982; Scale: Large (>1:24,000)
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Commodities | copper; molybdenum; silver; zinc; rhenium (1) |
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Valuable materials | chalcopyrite; bornite; chalcocite; molybdenite; tetrahedrite; matildite; chrysocolla; tenorite; cuprite; native copper; azurite; malachite; medmontite; limonite; hematite; goethite; pyrolusite; wulfenite; powellite; ferrimolybdite; covellite |
Associated materials | pyrite; sphalerite; pyrrhotite; magnetite; quartz; galena; wollastonite; montmorillonite; idocrase; garnet; diopside; calcite; fluorite; scheelite |
Mineralization style | vein |
Age of mineralization | Mid-Tertiary |
Host rock age | Permian; Pennsylvanian |
Host lithologies | metasedimentary rocks |
Reference | Barter, C.F., and Kelly, J.L., 1982, Geology of the Twin Buttes Mineral Deposit in Titley, S.R., ed., 1982, Advances in geology of the porphyry copper deposits, southwestern North America: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, p. 407-432. |
Additional references | (1) John and Taylor (2016) |
“The North Porphyry Contact Orebody is also northwest of the Twin Buttes fault but is on the northeast side of the porphyritic quartz monzonite, in Pennsylvanian and Permian metasedimentary rocks.”
Barter, C.F., and Kelly, J.L., 1982, Geology of the Twin Buttes Mineral Deposit in Titley, S.R., ed., 1982, Advances in geology of the porphyry copper deposits, southwestern North America: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, p. 407-432.
Type | Model | Reference |
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Deposit model | Porphyry Cu-Mo | John, D.A., and Taylor, R.D., 2016, By-Products of Porphyry Copper and Molybdenum Deposits in Verplanck, P.L., and Hitzman, M.W., (eds), 2016, Rare Earth and Critical Elements in Ore Deposits: Society of Economic Geologists, Inc., Reviews in Economic Geology, Volume 18, p. 137-164. |
Geoenvironmental model | Porphyry Cu | du Bray, E.A., 1995, ed., Preliminary compilation of descriptive geoenvironmental mineral deposit models: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-831, 272 p. |