Latitude: 33°21'12"N
Longitude: 113°53'29"W
A Au mine on several claims, located in SW ¼ sec. 32, T1N, R16W (MRDS = sec. 36, T1N, R17W), on the W side of Red Raven Wash, on federal land.
Mineralization is spotty, finely divided, free gold in fractures and breccia with gouge, calcite, and iron and manganese oxides, in red andesite porphyry that trends about N.70ºW. and crops out in several places along the wash. It is from 10 to 40 feet wide, is partly silicified, and contains a 3 foot (0.91 meter) wide calcite vein.
Workings include a 100 foot (30.48 meter) deep shaft and shallow discovery holes.
References
Jones, E.L., Jr. (1915), A Reconnaissance in the Kofa Mountains, Arizona, USGS Bull. 620: 162.
Wilson, E.D. (1933) Geology and Mineral Deposits of Southern Yuma County, Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 134: 118.
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: 116 (Table 4).
Yale Peabody GNIS database (NOTE: this database is derived from USGS 1:24,000 topographic map data).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027212, MRDS D #M002488; and, Dep. ID #10137823, MRDS ID #M002392, MAS ID #0040120125.
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