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Empire No. 2 Mine (Empire No. 2 shaft), Empire Mines, Dragoon, Cochise District, Little Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 32°1'5"N
Longitude: 110°3'20"W
Ref.: Cooper, J.R., and Silver, L.T. (1964) Geology and ore deposits of the Dragoon quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 416, 196 p., 13 sheets, scales 1:600, 1:1,200, 1:2,400, 1:4,800, 1:12,000, 1:31,680, 1:125,000: 176.

Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 57 (Table 4).

A Cu-Pb-Ag-W mine located in the NE ΒΌ sec. 25, T.16S., R.22E. Owned by the Empire Gold & Copper Mining Co.

Mineralization includes sulfides and some scheelite in small quartz veins cutting partly silicified Pennsylvanian Horquila Limestone.

Workings include a shaft and open cut. A total of about 65 tons of base metal ore produced inb 1909-1913 and 1946-1947.

Mineral List

Bornite
Chalcopyrite
Galena
Scheelite


4 entries listed. 4 valid minerals.

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