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Boulder claim group (Old Hawk Mine; Hillside Mine), Cochise District, Little Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 32°3'14"N
Longitude: 110°5'26"W
Ref.: Cooper, J.R. & L.T. Silver (1964), Geology and Ore Deposits of the Dragoon Quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona, USGS PP 416: 186.

Livingston, D.E., Damon, P.E., Mauger, R.L., Bennett, R., and Laughlin, A.W. (1967) Argon 40 in cogenetic feldspar-mica mineral assemblages: Journal of Geophysical Research: 72(4): 1361-1375.

Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geol. Sur. Branch Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise Co., AZ: 55 (Table 4).

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10046189, MRDS ID #M241029; and, Dep. ID #10281172, MAS ID #0040030105.

A former small surface W mine located in the SW ¼ sec. 10, T.16S., R.22E., approximately 4 miles NW of Dragoon between Harris Mountain and Davis Mountain, on private land. Owned by the Boulder Tungsten Mining Co.

Mineralization is hübnerite with minor scheelite and pyrite in narrow discontinuous quartz veins in altered Laramide quartz monzonite. Some associated tungsten placers.

Workings are surface workings. Sporadic total production of some 30 tons of tungsten concentrates in the early 1900's and from 1933 to 1954.

Mineral List

Hübnerite
Pyrite
Scheelite


3 entries listed. 3 valid minerals.

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