Latitude: 32°11'47"N
Longitude: 109°34'23"W
Ref.: Farnham, L.L., Stewart, L.A., and Delong, C.W. (1961), Manganese Deposits of Eastern Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7990: 10, 41.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 60 (Table 4).
Bell, J.E., U.S. Bureau of Mines Report file No. 463.2/300.
U.S. Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027132, MRDS ID #002197; and, Dep. ID #10185960, MAS ID #0040030032.
A surface and underground Au-Ag-Mn occurrence/group of 6 claims/prospect located in the SE¼ sec. 22, T.14S., R.27E, 3½ miles NE of Dos Cabezas, AZ, on private land. Operated by Mr. T.P. Bean (1940).
Mineralization consists of spotty gold and minor silver values associated with irregular quartz veins along fault fissures cutting Cretaceous schistose rocks and with minor manganese oxide in limy beds.
Workings include a shaft and surface workings. A few hundred tons of ore were produced from this group during the period 1884 to 1933.
The operations attempted for mining gold were unsuccessful. Small Mn deposit.
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