Latitude: 32°4'19"N
Longitude: 110°4'58"W
Ref.: Cooper, J.R. & L.T. Silver (1964), Geology and Ore Deposits of the Dragoon Quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona, USGS PP 416: 184-185.
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 County, Arizona: 56 (Table 4).
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10039397, MRDS ID #M050026; and Dep. ID #10160817, MAS ID #0040030128.
A former small surface and underground W-Cu-Be-Bi mine located in the NE¼ sec. 3, T.16S., R.22E, 3,000 feet NE of the Bluebird Mine, which is 2¾ miles SW of Johnson on the north slope of Bluebird Hill, on private land. Owned by the Primos Chemical Co.
Mineralization is a deposit comprised of small veins across a width of 50 to 75 feet. The maximum width of individual veins IS 2 feet. None seem to extend along strike more than 150 feet. Veins are concentrated into lodes 4 or 5 feet wide. A second set strikes N5 TO 20E and dips 45 E. The veins have spotty hübnerite with minor scheelite and copper minerals in bunches in quartz veins cutting Laramide quartz monzonite (Texas Canyon stock). The ore zone is 45.72 meters long and 0.61 meters thick, strikes N30-40E and dips 40-60SE. Striae indicate complex fault movement; Some normal, some reverse.
Local structures include reverse and normal faults. Tertiary block faulting trending NNW. reginally, Late Cretaceous or Early Tertiary N- to NW-trending folds and thrust faults overriding to the NE.
Workings include tunnels and open cuts. One adit is 185 feet; 5 drifts totalling 500 feet; stoped areas partially caved. Some 100 tons of tungsten ore concentrates were produced in the early 1900's.
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