Latitude: 31°36'4"N
Longitude: 110°48'19"W
Ref.: Rohrbacker, R.T. (1964) Geology of the Temporal Gulch-Mansfield Canyon area, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. thesis, 81 p.
Keith, Stanton B. (1975), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County Arizona: 90 (Table 4).
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, AZ Dept. Mines & Min. Resources Open File Rept. 92-10: 16 (Table 1).
USGS 15 minute Mt. Wrightson topo map.
USGS 7.5 minute Patagonia Quadrangle topo map.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
Yale Peabody GNIS database.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10161861, MAS ID #0040230251.
A former underground Ag-Cu mine located in the SW¼SW¼SW¼ sec. 15, and the NW¼ sec. 22, T.21S., R.15E. (Mount Wrightson 15 minute topo map), on National Forest land. Owned by Bartlett & Linton (1975).
Mineralization is disseminations and stringers of oxidized copper and silver ores in a quartz fissure vein along the intrusive contact of Jurassic granite with contact-metamorphosed Triassic dacite and latitic flows.
Workings include tunnel operations. Produced some 100 tons of ore averaging about 5.5 oz. Ag/T and 1.6% Cu.
Mineral List
No entries listed.
The above list contains all mineral locality references listed on mindat.org. This does not claim to be a complete list. If you know of more minerals from this site, please
register so you can add to our database. This locality information is for reference purposes only. You should never attempt to
visit any sites listed in mindat.org without first ensuring that you have the permission of the land and/or mineral rights holders
for access and that you are aware of all safety precautions necessary.
Mineral and Locality Search
