Latitude: 31°42'16"N
Longitude: 110°4'20"W
Ref.: Church, J.A. (1903) The Tombstone, Arizona, mining district: American Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions: 33: 6.
Jones, Jr., E.L. & F.L. Ransome (1920), Deposits of manganese ore in Arizona, USGS Bull. 710-D: Plate V.
Butler, B.S., and Wilson, E.D. (1938) Structural control of the ore deposits at Tombstone, in Some Arizona ore deposits: Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin No. 145: 46-48, 78, 103, Pl. XII.
Butler, B.S., et al (1938b), Geology and ore deposits of the Tombstone district, Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 143: 51.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 76 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines files.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027021, MRDS ID #M001734; and, Dep. ID #10234221, MAS ID #0040030623.
A former small underground Ag-Pb-Au-Mn-Cu mine located in the SW ΒΌ sec. 11, T.20S., R.22E, 1/2 mile SW of Tombstone, Arizona and 500 feet N of the Old Guard shaft, 500 feet W of the Ingersol shaft. Produced 1905-1935. Owned by the Herschel Mining Co.
Mineralization is oxidized oreshoots of argentiferous galena at the intersection of the northern extent of the Lucky Cuss fault zone with 'northeast' fissures and in bedded replacement bodies in Pennsylvanian-Permian Naco Group limestone beneath bedding plane slips.
Workings include a shaft(s). Some 5,000 tons of ore were produced, mainly between 1905 and 1935.
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