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Mission Complex (Palo Verde, San Xavier South & North, Pima, Eisenhower )
Arizona, USA
Main commodities: Cu Mo




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 1998.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Mission pit

    Selected References
Jansen L J  1982 - Stratigraphy and structure of the Mission Copper deposit, Pima mining district, Pima County, Arizona: in Titley S R 1983 Advances in Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits, Southwestern North America University of Arizona Press, Tucson    pp 467-474
King J R  1982 - Geology of the San Xavier North Porphyry Copper deposit, Pima mining district, Pima County, Arizona: in Titley S R 1983 Advances in Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits, Southwestern North America University of Arizona Press, Tucson    pp 475-485
Kinnison J E  1966 - The Mission Copper deposit, Arizona: in Titley S R, Hicks C L 1966 Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits, Southwestern North America University of Arizona Press, Tucson    pp 281-287
Porter T M  1998 - The Mission skarn porphyry copper deposit: in   Compilation from published literature and previous visits  (Unpub.)    9p
Titley S R  1982 - Some features of tectonic history and ore genesis in the Pima mining district, Pima County, Arizona: in Titley S R 1983 Advances in Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits, Southwestern North America University of Arizona Press, Tucson    pp 387-406
Titley S R,  1996 - Alteration of mineralized carbonate rocks in the epicrustal environment: in   Porphyry Related Copper and Gold Deposits of the Asia Pacific Region, Conf Proc, Cairns, 12-13 Aug, 1996, AMF, Adelaide,    pp 3.1 - 3.10


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