Mexus Gold US (MXSG)

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Ajo Porphyhy belt is not Mojave-Sonora megashear mineral belt. Mini-mountains at Ajo made mega-bunches of copper at profit and .2 gr gold was cost reducer I'd guess. New Cornelia mine 1911-1983 is 1.5 miles wide and 1100' deep. Can see the minerals being recycled there now. The two features are linked but not the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cornelia_mine

"Copper production from the mine totaled 6.304 billion pounds of copper,[5] worth about US$20.8 billion at the 2010 copper price of $3.30/pound."


The Early Galiuro orogeny (Mineta phase) – 38-28 Ma records the deposition of sediments and
volcanics in local basins, with minor volcanics, local conglomerates and lacustrine deposits of
carbonates and gypsum and clay. Mineral deposits consisted of minor uranium in sedimentary
and volcanic rocks, secondary exotic copper deposits, and industrial mineral deposits. Examples
of exotic copper deposits near the porphyry copper deposits from which they were derived
include the Copper Butte exotic copper deposit derived from the Ray porphyry copper deposit
and the Ajo Cornelia exotic copper deposits derived from the Ajo porphyry copper deposit

http://www.arizonageologicalsoc.org/resources/Documents/Archived%20News%20Letters/2015/June/ABSArizonaMineralsthroughGeologicTime.pdf


"Mojave-Sonora megashear of Silver and Anderson
(1974, 1983; Anderson and Silver, 1979), a Late Jurassic
sinistral strike-slip fault with as much as 800 km of displacement.
If the boundary is the megashear, the two
terranes could have been tectonically juxtaposed in the
Mesozoic. However, Shafiqullah and others (1980) suggest
that the juxtaposition of the Proterozoic terranes,
which forms a part of the basis for the megashear, occurred
during the Proterozoic."

http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1992/1082/report.pdf