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Cave Mine (Cave Mountain Mine; Cave Creek Mine; Cave Canyon Mine; Silver Plume Mine; Snow Drop Mine), Hartford District (Huachuca Mountains District), Huachuca Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

A former small underground Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag mine located in SE ¼ sec. 33, T23S, R20E, on National Forest land. First produced 1946. Operated by the Cave Mountain Mines Corp. (circa 1947).

Mineralization is partly oxidized, irregular replacement deposits of lead and zinc mineralization in exotic blocks of Paleozoic limestone in Triassic-Jurassic volcanics which are badly faulted and cut by Tertiary rhyolite dikes. Workings include tunnels. Produced 565 tons of ore (1946-47); or, 388 tons containing 73,716 pounds of Zn, 50,281 pounds Pb, 3,938 pounds Cu and 285 oz. Ag.



References:
Wilson, E.D., et al (1951), Arizona zinc and lead deposits, part II, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 158: 40.

Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: Geological Survey Branch Bull. 187: 65 (Table 4).

Ludington, S. (1984) Preliminary mineral-resource assessment of the proposed Miller Peak Wilderness, Cochise County, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-0293, 10 p.: 3-4.

Tuftin, S.E. and Armstrong, R.C. (1994) U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report Mineral Land Assessment (MLA) 1-94.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources file data, Cave Creek Canyon.

MRDS database Dep. ID file # ?? and #10113095, MRDS ID #M241047, MAS ID #0040030048.





Map Reference: 31°23'9"N , 110°19'5"W

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Mineral List:
Calcite
Chalcopyrite
Galena
Hemimorphite
Limonite
Sphalerite
Willemite


7 entries listed. 6 valid minerals.

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