Latitude: 31°42'6"N
Longitude: 110°5'44"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: 47.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 79.
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 #10104077, MRDS ID #M241130; and, Dep. ID #10233843, MAS ID #0040030685.
A former small underground Ag-Pb-Cu-Au mine located in the SE ¼ sec. 9, T.20S., R.22E, 1½ miles SW of Tombstone, on private land. Owned at times, or in part, by the Mellgren Group, the Soltice Mining & Milling Co., and the Tombstone Silver Fields Co. Operated by L.F. Winters, Hull, Crochetti, and C.R. Jackson.
Mineralization is a replacement deposit of oxidized lead-silver ore along a fault fissure vein cutting Cretaceous Bisbee Group beds close to the contact with Laramide Uncle Sam Quartz Latite Porphyry.
Workings include a shaft(s). Some 425 tons of ore were produced intermittently from 1911 to 1940.
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