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

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OSTI ID:6539002
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