Latitude: 31°41'35"N
Longitude: 110°3'8"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: 77 (Table 4).
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 5 (Table 1).
Arizona Bureau of mines files.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10046260, MRDS ID #M241136; and, Dep. ID #10280162, MAS ID #0040030658.
A former small underground Pb-Ag-Au-Cu mine located at the central-border area of secs. 13 & center-E½ sec. 14, T20S., R.22E. (Tombstone 7.5 minute tpo map), approximately 1 mile south of Tombstone, on private land. Produced 1937-1941. Operated by Mr. W.C. Humphry (1941).
Mineralization is a replacement deposit with oxidized lead and copper ores along a fracture zone in Lower Bisbee Group Paleozoic limestone.
Local structures include the Tombstone Basin, south edge, north of the Prompter Fault. Beds tilted NNE after mineralization.
Workings include a shaft(s). About 100 tons of ore were produced in the late 1930's and early 1940's.
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