A Cu prospect located in the center sec. 13, T9S, R25E, on the southeastern slopes of the Pinaleño Mountains, on National Forest land. Owned by Messrs. Don C. Adams and Pete Talley of Arizona (1954).
Mineralization is a major fault zone up to 10 feet thick, with a strike of N35W, and a near vertical dip, shattered and sheared gneiss, clayey gouge, chrysocolla, hematite, and limonite. The country rock is Precambrian granitic gneiss.
Workings include a trench about 100 feet long, 15 feet deep at its deepest.
References:
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Preliminary Reconnaissance Report 172-481 (1954): 377.
Brown, S.D. (1993) Mineral Appraisal of the Coronado National Forest, part 1, Pinaleno-Greasewood Mountains Unit, Graham County, Arizona: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report MLA 8-93, 76 pp.
USGS Artesia Quadrangle map.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10161466, MAS ID #0040090172.
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Map Reference: 32°39'3"N , 109°44'26"W
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