Latitude: 31°25'45"N
Longitude: 109°49'50"W
‡Ref.: Ransome, F.L. (1904a), The geology and ore deposits of the Bisbee quadrangle, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 21, 168 p., 3 sheets, scales 1:12,000 and 1:62,500: 119.
University of Arizona Bull. 41 (1916-17), Mineralogy of Useful Minerals in Arizona: 52.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 86 (Table 4).
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
Peirce, H. Wesley (1990), Arizona Geological Survey Industrial Minerals card file.
Arizona Bureau of Mines files.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10102423, MRDS ID #M001709; and, Dep. ID #10234259, MAS ID #0040030605.
A former small underground Au-Ag-Silica (smelter flux) mine located in West-central (NW¼SW¼) sec. 17, T.23S., R.25E, on private land. Owned by the Easter Sunday Gold Mining & Milling Co.
Mineralization is irregular free gold, auriferous pyrite, and calcite in a fractured quartzite bed of the Morita Formation of the Cretaceous Bisbee Group.
Workings include a shaft(s) and a tunnel several hundred feet in length. About 2,000 tons of ore were produced as flux in 1900-1911.
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