Latitude: 31°41'57"N
Longitude: 110°4'29"W
‡Ref.: The Resources of Arizona - A Manual of Reliable Information Concerning the Territory, compiled by Patrick Hamilton (1881), Scottsdale, AZ: 36.
Church, J.A. (1903) The Tombstone, Arizona, mining district: American Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions: 33: 6.
Butler, B.S., Wilson, E.D., and Rasor, C.A. (1938b), Geology and ore deposits of the Tombstone district, Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 143: 78.
Needham, A.B. & W.R. Storms (1956), Investigation of Tombstone district manganese deposits, Cochise County, Arizona, U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5188: 78.
Farnham, L.L., Stewart, L.A., and Delong, C.W. (1961), Manganese Deposits of Eastern Arizona, U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7990: 37.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 75 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines files.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10046211, MRDS ID #M241062; and, Dep. ID #10185568, MAS ID #0040030604.
A former small surface and underground Ag-Mn-Pb-Au mine located in the NW ¼ sec. 14, T.20S., R.22E, approximately 1 mile S of Tombstone, on private land. This claim is located between the large shaft workings of the Tribute and Lucky Cuss mines. Owned at times, or in part, by Tombstone Gold and Silver Mining Co. (1881); Tombstone Mill & Mining Co., Tombstone Consolidated Mines Co., Bunker Hill Mines Co., and the Tombstone Development Co.
Mineralization is a replacement deposit of small, oxidized oreshoots of manganiferous silver mineralization along a 'northeast' fissure zone in Cretaceous Bisbee Group sedimentary beds.
Workings include both surface and underground openings. A small manganese producer. A few thousand tons of ore were produced in the early 1900's. The Ag-Pb-Au figures included under the Tombstone group in ABGMT-USBM file data.
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