‡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 Co., Arizona: 145 (Table 4).
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.
A Cu-Au-Ag-Fe mine located in the center of sec. 11, T7N, R13W (Salome 15 minute topo map). Owned at times, or in part, by McDonald; Whitehouse & Shapp; Wenden Copper Co.; Wenden Copper Mining Co.; and Honey.
Mineralization is spotty copper-gold ores in pockets and disseminations in a gangue of hematite streaks, quartz, and calcite, with copper sulfides and siderite in depth, along a strong fault or shear zone cutting Precambrian metamorphics intruded by diorite dikes and close to a Laramide granitic intrusive.
Workings include numerous shafts and underground workings. Prospected and mined from about 1899 to 1941, producing some 120 tons of ore averaging about 9% Cu, 0.3 oz. Au/T, and 0.4 oz. Ag/T.
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