Latitude: 31°42'3"N
Longitude: 110°6'11"W
Ref.: 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.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 75 (Table 4).
Marvin, R.F., Stern, T.W., Creasey, S.C., and Mehnert, H.H. (1973) Radiometric ages of igneous rocks from Pima, Santa Cruz, and Cochise Counties, southeastern Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1379, 27 p.
Arizona Bureau of Mines files.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10046210, MRDS ID #M241060; and, Dep. ID #10160821, MAS ID #0040030610.
A former small surface and underground Ag-Au-Mn mine located in South-central sec. 9 & North-central sec. 16, T.20S., R.22E, about 500 feet S of Merrimac adits, approximately 2 miles SW of Tombstone. First produced 1920.
Mineralization is a replacement deposit of oxidized and enriched, weak and spotty, gold and silver ores along a fault fissure in Laramide Uncle Sam quartz-latite porphyry. Operators included Free Coinage Lease, G.E. Vaughn, and, Tom Brandt.
Workings are shallow openings, 2 shafts and surface workings. About 500 tons of ore were produced intermittently since the 1890's, mainly in the period 1920-1922. ABGMT-USBM production figures include at least some data from the Merrimac Mine to the north.
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