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Yale Peabody GNIS database (NOTE: this database is derived from USGS 1:24,000 topographic map data).
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10109616, MRDS ID #M050512; and, Dep. ID #10234033, MAS ID #0040030198.
A former small W-Pb-Cu-Zn-Ag-Au mine located on 3 unpatented claims in South-central sec. 5 & North-central sec. 8, T.23S., R.20E. (Miller Peak 7.5 minute topo map), upper Brown Canyon, near crest of the range (7,200 feet of altitude) and adjacent to the Fort Huachuca military reservation. Produced 1918, 1945-1947. Owned at times, or in part, by the Pomona Mining Co.; Huachuca Mining and Milling Co.; Sierra Vista Mining Co.; J. Kelley & Associates (WWI); H.S. James (1927- ); and, by the Border-Land Metals Co.
Mineralization is scheelite and oxidized base metal sulfides in a quartz vein and in pockets in deformed and thrust faulted Cambrian Abrigo and Devonian Martin limestone (lower Paleozoic) beds. The principal vein crops out for a length of about 150 feet with a width of 1½ to 10 feet, a N40W strike, and a dip of 45ºSW to almost flat. Oreshoots to 5 feet thick and more than 10 feet long appear to occur at intersections of NW & northly fissures. Ore consists of coarsely crystalline grayish-white quartz with tungsten mineralization.
Workings include a 200 foot long adit with several stopes and drifts. This mine produced 450 tons of tungsten ore in 1918 and intermittently some 120 tons from 1945 to 1963. Some base metal sulfides were produced as a by-product.
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