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Lutz tunnel (Independence Mine; Black Bear group), Ash Canyon, Hartford District (Huachuca Mountains District), Huachuca Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 31°23'2"N
Longitude: 110°17'9"W
‡Ref.: Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geol. Sur. Branch Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 66 (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.: 3-4.

Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 4 (Table 1).

Tuftin, S.E. and Armstrong, R.C. (1994) U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report Mineral Land Assessment (MLA) 1-94.

Winters, Wayne, undated, prospectus (in ADMMR files).

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10104045, MRDS ID #M241003; and Dep. ID #10282412, MAS ID #0040030176.

A former small underground Cu-Ag-Au mine located in the SW¼ sec. 35, T.23S., R.20E (Miller Peak 7.5 minute topo map). First produced 1910. Owned and ore produced by Lutz Mining Company, 1909.

Mineralization is stringers and disseminations of copper carbonates and sulfides in Jurassic quartz monzonite and in exotic blocks of Paleozoic limestone in Triassic-Jurassic volcanics.

Workings include a tunnel. Test lots of ore were produced about 1910.

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