Latitude: 31°25'44"N
Longitude: 110°22'46"W
‡Ref.: Alexis, C.O. (1949), The Geology of the Northern Part of the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, University of Arizona, PhD. Thesis: 65-66.
Wilson, E.D., et al (1951), Arizona zinc and lead deposits, part II, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 158: 37.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 65 (Table 4).
Ludington, S. (1984) Preliminary mineral-resource assessment of the proposed Miller Peak Wilderness, Cochise County, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-0293, 10 p.
Tuftin, S.E. and Armstrong, R.C. (1994) U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report Mineral Land Assessment (MLA) 1-94.
Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 140: 91.
MRDS database Dep. ID fle #10027032, MRDS ID #M001757; and, Dep. ID #10112391, MAS ID #0040030135.
A former small Pb-Ag-Cu-Au mine located in the SE ¼ sec. 14, T.23S., R.19E. Locality unsurveyed. Located about 1 mile SW of the southern boundary of the Fort Huachuca military reservation. Closed 1951. First produced 1900. Operated by Mr. L. D. Carlisle (1951).
Mineralization is spotty sulfides, alrgely oxidized, in quartz veins in shale and sandstone of the steeply tilted Cretaceous Bisbee Group Morita Formation cut by Tertiary dikes or sills.
Workings include tunnels. A small production of ore was made in the early 1900's and in 1951.
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