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Cole Mine (Cole shaft; Cole No. 3), Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

‡Ref.: Trischka, C., et al (1929), Boxwork siderite, Economic Geology: 24: 677-686.

Schwartz, G.M. & C.F. Park, Jr. (1932), A microscopic study of ores from the Campbell mine, Bisbee, Arizona, Economic Geology: 27: 39-51.

Schwartz, G.M. (1934), Paragenesis of the oxidized ores of copper, Economic Geology 29: 55-75.

Trischka, C. (1938), Bisbee district, in Some Arizona ore deposits, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 145: 37, fig. 6.

Bain, G.W. (1952), The age of the 'Lower Cretaceous' from Bisbee, Arizona, uraninite, Economic Geology: 47: 305-315.

Hutton, C.O. (1957), Sengierite from Bisbee, Arizona, American Mineralogist: 42: 408-411.

Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 74, 77.

Bideaux, R.A., et al (1960), Some new occurrences of minerals of Arizona, Arizona Geological Society Digest: 3: 53-56.

Cooper, J.R. (1962) Bismuth in the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Resource Map MR-22, 19 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:3,168,000.

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Bryant, D.G. & H.E. Metz (1966), Geology and ore deposits of the Warren mining district, in S.R. Titley and C.L. Hicks (editors), Geology of the porphyry copper deposits, southwestern North America, University of Arizona Press, Tucson: (189-203): 200-201.

Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 85 (Table 4).

Williams, S.A. & P. Matter III (1975), Graemite, a new Bisbee mineral, Mineralogical Record: 6: 32-34.

Graeme, R. (1981), Famous mineral localities: Bisbee, Arizona, Mineralogical Record: 12: 256-319.

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Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 106, 114, 122, 130, 141, 164, 169, 175, 176, 190, 238, 249, 274, 285, 299, 321, 352, 366, 372, 382, 385, 389, 392, 404, 405, 412, 425.

Grant, Raymond W., Bideaux, R.A., and Williams, S.A. (2006) Minerals Added to the Arizona List 1995-2005: 9.

Arizona Bureau of Mines files.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10104074, MRDS ID #M241113; and, Dep. ID #10185841, MAS ID #0040030257.

A former large output underground Cu-Ag-Bi mine located in the S½NE¼ sec. 21, T.23S., R.24E, approximately 1½ miles WNW of Warren, on private land. One of the major Calumet and Arizona Company mines. Owned at times, or in part, by the Lake Superior & Pittsburg Development Co., Calumet & Arizona Mining Co., and the Phelps Dodge Corp.

Mineralization is partially oxidized copper ores in irregular replacement orebodies in relatively unaltered Cambrian Abrigo and Devonian Martin limestones along the Dallas fault zone and adjacent fracture zones.

Local structures include common pre-mineralization faulting and tilting. Main fault directions are N10W to N40E and S30W to N50W.

Workings include a deep shaft. Probably produced several hundred thousand tons of ore; included in Calumet & Arizona and Phelps Dodge totals after 1915.





Map Reference: 31°25'5"N , 109°54'24"W

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Mineral List:
  • Alunite
  • Anthonyite
  • Aurichalcite
  • Azurite
  • Bayleyite
  • Bornite
  • Brochantite
  • Bromargyrite
  • Buttgenbachite
  • Calcite
  • Carbonatecyanotrichite
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcophanite
  • Chalcosiderite
  • Chlorargyrite
  • Claringbullite
  • Clinochlore
  • Connellite
  • Copper
  • Covellite
  • Cuprite
  • Galena
  • Goethite
  • Gold
  • Graemite (TL)
  • Gypsum
  • Hemimorphite
  • Hetaerolite
  • Hübnerite
  • Johannite
  • Kiddcreekite
  • Leadhillite
  • Malachite
  • Mimetite
  • Paratacamite
  • Pyrite
  • Ransomite
  • Römerite
  • Scheelite
  • Sengierite
  • Silver
  • Spessartine
  • Stibiconite
  • Stromeyerite
  • Teineite
  • Tetrahedrite
  • Turquoise
  • Tyuyamunite
  • Uranopilite
  • Variscite
    var: Ferrian Variscite
  • Voltaite
  • Wulfenite
  • Zippeite


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