‡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: 144 (Table 4).
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 8 (Table 1).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10234874, MAS ID #0040120184.
A former surface and underground Cu-Au-Ag-Fe mine located in the NE¼ sec. 1, T7N, R13W (Salome 15 minute topo map), on land of unknown status. Owned and operated by Mr. Davis (1918).
Mineralization is spotty, oxidized copper and gold values associated with specular hematite and limonite along fissure veins in Precambrian metamorphics.
Workings include a shallow shaft, adit and open cut workings. It was mined intermittently, about 1912-1918. Some 120 tons of ore averaging about 10% Cu, 0.3 oz. Au/T and 1.0 oz. Ag/T.
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Map Reference: 33°58'55"N , 113°33'57"W
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