ScheeliteComstock Lode Mine, Teviston District, Dos Cabezas Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Photo: Rob Lavinsky Latitude: 32°17'23"N
Longitude: 109°40'21"W
‡Ref.: Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 80-81.
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.
Dale, V.B., Stewart, L.A., and McKinney, W.A. (1960), Tungsten deposits of Cochise, Pima, and Santa Cruz Counties., Arizona, U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5650: 25-26.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187: 72 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines files.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10098657, MRDS ID #M241074; and, Dep. ID #10112830, MAS ID #0040030121.
A former small surface and underground W-Pb-Ag mine located in East-central sec. 22, T.13S., R.26E., approximately 10 miles E of Willcox, on private land. Discovered 1944 and explored sporatically until 1956. Owned by the Tyrone Mining Co.
Mineralization is spotty scheelite with minor galena and oxidized iron and lead minerals in quartz veins and veinlets in Laramide granitic rock (diorite) Cowboy Pluton (59 MY). The ore zone strikes E and dips S. Some low grade tungsten placers. An associated rock unit is the Cowboy pluton.
Workings include open cuts, pits, short adits, and shallow shafts. A few tons or ore were mined in the 1950's.
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