Latitude: 32°13'52"N
Longitude: 109°35'42"W
‡Ref.: Tenney, J.B. (1927-1929) History of Mining in Arizona, Special Collection, University of Arizona Library & Arizona Bureau of Mines Library: 226-227.
Cooper, J.R. (1960) Reconnaissance map of the Willcox, Fisher Hills, Cochise, and Dos Cabezas quadrangles, Cochise and Graham Counties, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Field Studies Map MF-231, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 61 (Table 4).
Drewes, Harold, et al (1988), Volcanic and structural controls of mineralization in the Dos Cabezas Mountains, southeastern Arizona, USGS Bull. 1676: 20, 21 (Figure 6), 22 (Table 2).
U.S. Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027109, MRDS ID #M002125; and, Dep. ID #10258723, MAS ID #0040030131.
A former small underground Cu-Au-Ag-Mo-Fe mine located in the center of sec. 9, T.14S., R.27E, about 18 miles E of Wilcox, AZ, on private land. Owned at times, or in part, by the Central Copper Co. and the Tout, Arivaca (Aztec) Mining Co.
Mineralization is irregular, frequently massive, magnetite and sulfides in a pyrometasomatic pipe-like body along a strong shear and fault zone cutting brecciated and metamorphosed Paleozoic limestone and Laramide rhyolite and granitic intrusive rock. The ore zone is 106.68 meters long and 30.48 meters wide. Mineralization includes copper oxide(s).
Workings include a shaft at 137.16 meters deep. The workings have at least four levels, the upper levels were at the 40, 113, and 163 foot depths. There was considerable stoping above the 163 foot level workings - about 5,000 feet of workings total length. Ore assayed at 3.71-5% Cu. At least 8,000 tons of ore were produced intermittently from the late 1910's to the late 1960's. The ore was trammed to the Mascot Mine, Mascot District (now included in this district) 2 miles S. A 10,600 foot aerial tramway was operated in 1957 by Utex Exploration Co.
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