Bernarde Mine (Happy Jean group; Bernard Mine; Happy Jack group; Sunnyside Mine), Reid Valley, Rawhide Mountains Wilderness Area, Alamo District, Buckskin Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA

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‡Ref.: Keith, Stanton B. (1978) State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 192, Index of Mining Properties in Yuma County, Arizona: 114 (Table 4).

Tosdal, R.M., Bryant, B., Hill, R.H., Hanna, W.F., Knepper, D.H., Jr., Jones, S.L., Oliver, K.S., and Tuftin, S.E. (1990) Mineral resources of the Rawhide Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz and Mohave Counties, Arizona, Chapter G, in Mineral Resources of Wilderness Study Areas - Western Arizona and part of San Bernardino County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1701-G, p. G1-G24: G5, G6, G12-G13.

Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 9 (Table 1).

Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10161821, MAS ID #0040120460; and, Dep. ID #10161829, MAS ID #0040120054; and, Dep. ID #10304572, MAS ID #0040120253.

A former surface Cu-Ag-Au mine located in the NW ¼ sec. 19, T.10N., R.13W. (Ives Peak 15 minute topo map), on land of unknown status. Mr. Bernard had unspecified involvement here.

Mineralization is oxidized copper ores with gouge and breccia along a thrust fault plane which placed Precambrian schist and gneiss over Tertiary sedimentary and volcanic beds.

Worked intermittently, mainly from a tunnel, from 1912 to 1936, producing some 138 tons of ore averaging about 1% Cu, 0.1 oz. Ag/T and 0.1 oz. Au/T. Openings include 10 prospect pits and 6 small adits.

Mineral List

Chrysocolla

1 entry listed. 1 valid mineral.