Latitude: 31°25'55"N
Longitude: 109°54'21"W
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Arizona Bureau of Mines files.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10046243, MRDS ID #M241109; and, Dep. ID #10280339, MAS ID #0040030613.
A former large output, underground Cu-Pb-Zn-Au-Ag mine located in the NE ¼ sec. 16, T.23S., R.24E. (Bisbee 7.5 minute topo map), approximately 1 mile south of Lowell on private land. Owned by the Phelps Dodge Corp.
Mineralization is largely oxidized copper, zinc, and lead ores in irregular contact intrusive breccia orebodies, both as disseminations and in small massive bodies, in Devonian Martin and Lower Mississippian Escabrosa limestones at the edge of the granite porphyry stock. Ore control was the nearby dikes and sills, and faulting and associated brecciation. Ore concentration was bornite repalcing pyrite. Alteration was gossan with Mn and Fe oxides induced by hydrothermal metamorphism. An associated rock unit is the Sacramento Hill Stock.
Local structures include pre-mineralization faulting and tilting. Main fault directions are N10W to N40E and S30W to N50W.
Workings include a shaft(s) to a depth of 213.36 meters. A major producer of the Phelps Dodge total. Shaft and mine were subhumed by the growing Lavender pit.
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