Latitude: 31°41'48"N
Longitude: 110°4'29"W
‡Ref.: Goodale, C.W. (1889) The occurrence and treatment of the argentiferous manganese ores of Tombstone district, Arizona: American Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions: 17: 767.
Church, J.A. (1903) The Tombstone, Arizona, mining district: American Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions: 33: 29.
USGS topographic map, Tombstone and vicinity, Arizona (1907).
Jones, Jr., E.L. & F.L. Ransome (1920), Deposits of manganese ore in Arizona, USGS Bull. 710-D: 113, Plate V.
Wilson, E.D. & G.M. Butler (1930), Manganese ore deposits of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 127: 47.
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: 43, 46, 80, 103, Pl. III & IV.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 77 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of mines files.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027136, MRDS ID #M002206; and, Dep. ID #10113045, MAS ID #0040030645.
A former small underground Ag-Mn-Au-Pb mine located in the NW ¼ sec. 14, T.20S., R.22E, 1 mile S of Tombstone, on private land. Located south of the adjoining Lucky Cuss Mine. Operated at times, or in part, by Mr. Harry Marcia; the Old Glory Mining Co., Bunker Hill Mines Co., and the Tombstone Development Co. Tombstone Mill And Mining Co., Tombstone Consolidated Mines Co.
Mineralization is irregular, oxidized pipe and chimney orebodies of manganiferous silver along 'northeast' fissure zones in Pennsylvanian-Permian Naco Group limestone near intersections with the Lucky Cuss fault.
Workings include a shaft(s) and adit(s). A few thousand tons of manganiferous smelter flux was produced in 1881 and 1884, and some 1,600 tons in 1905-1906. Produced from 1905 to 1918 under the name Luck Sure. Some production included under the Tombstone group.
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