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Ajo, New Cornelia
Arizona, USA
Main commodities: Cu Ag Mo




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 1995.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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New Cornelia

    Selected References
Cox, D.P., Force, E.R., Wilkinson, W.H., More, S.W., Rivera, J.S. and Wooden, J.L.,  2006 - The Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona - Evidence for Middle Cenozoic Detachment Faulting, Plutonism, Volcanism, and Hydrothermal Alteration: in    U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,   Professional Paper 1733, 53p.
Dixon D W  1966 - Geology of the New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Arizona: in Titley S R, Hicks C L 1966 Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits, Southwestern North America University of Arizona Press, Tucson    pp 123-132
Hagstrum J T, Cox D P, Miller R J  1987 - Structural reinterpretation of the Ajo mining district, Pima County, Arizona, based on paleomagnetic and geochronologic studies: in    Econ. Geol.   v82 pp 1348-1361
Runyon, S.E., Nickerson, P.A., Seedorff, E., Barton, M.D., Mazdab, F.K., Lecumberri-Sanchez, P. and Steele-MacInnis, M.,  2019 - Sodic-Calcic Family of Alteration in Porphyry Systems of Arizona and Adjacent New Mexico: in    Econ. Geol.   v.114, pp. 745-770.


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