A mine on the Buckeye vein. Started before 1880. Owned by Mrs. Eliza DeLuce (circa 1933).
Mineralization involves small areas of slate cut by large dikes of diorite porphyry and smaller dikes of quartz porphyry outcrop. The vein is near the contact between the two kinds of dikes.
Workings include 5 shafts at 75 to 600 feet deep plus several shallow cuts.
References
Blake (1880).
Blake, William P. (1881a), Vanadinite in Arizona, American Journal of Science: 22: 235.
Blake, William P. (1881b [1882]), On the occurrence of vanadates of lead at the Castle Dome mines in Arizona, American Journal of Science, 3rd series: 22: 410-411.
Nevius, J.N. (1912) The Castle Dome lead district, Arizona: Mining and Scientific Press: 104: 854-855.
Wilson, E.D. (1933) Geology and Mineral Deposits of Southern Yuma County, Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 134: 95-96.
Wilson, E.D., et al (1951), Castle Dome district, Chap. X, in Arizona zinc and lead deposits, part II, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 158: 110-111.
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: 119 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
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