Mineral resources of the Rawhide Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz and Mohave counties, Arizona

Book · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6539002

Tosdal, R M; Bryant, B; Hill, R H; Hanna, W F; Knepper, D H; Jones, S L; Oliver, K S; Tuftin, S E

The Rawhide Mountains Wilderness Study Area has identified subeconomic resources of gold, silver, and copper in three areas around old mines. There is no additional potential for gold, silver, and copper (high and moderate), manganese (moderate), uranium, vanadium, geothermal, oil and gas, and sand and gravel (low). Metallic deposits are along high-angle faults cutting mylonitic gneiss and schist that underlies the middle Tertiary Buckskin-Rawhide detachment fault. Syntectonic volcanic and sedimentary rocks in the upper plate of the detachment fault host small mineral occurrences.

• OSTI ID: 6539002
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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