Latitude: 31°41'39"N
Longitude: 110°5'47"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: Pl. III.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 78 (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 #10104078, MRDS ID #M241133; and, Dep. ID #10209804, MAS ID #0040030679.
A former small underground Ag mine loated in the SE ¼ sec. 16, T.20S., R.22E, approximately 2 miles SW of Tombstone, on private land.
Mineralization is spotty silver values in an oxidized fissure vein cutting Laramide Uncle Sam Quartz Latite Porphyry.
Local structures include Bisbee beds that strike E-W and have a variable dip.
Workings are shallow. A few hundred tons of ore were produced during the 1880's and 1890's.
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