Mineral resources of the Baboquivari Peak and Coyote Mountains wilderness study areas, Pima County, Arizona

Book · Sat Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6904278

Nowlan, G A; Haxel, G B; Hanna, W F; Pitkin, J A; Diveley-White, D V; McDonnell, J R; Lundby, W

This book discusses the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness Study Area which is underlain by Jurassic sedimentary, volcanic, and granitic rocks which were intruded by a network of middle Tertiary rhyolite dikes. This wilderness study area has no identified resources. This wilderness study area has a high potential for resources of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, barium, bismuth, manganese, molybdenum, and tungsten in veins associated with felsic to intermediate intrusions. A low potential for resources of thorium, beryllium, and bismuth in pegmatites; a low potential for gold and silver resources in paleo-placer deposits; and a low potential for molybdenum resources in an inferred porphyry molybdenum deposit exists in this wilderness study area.

• OSTI ID: 6904278
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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