Latitude: 33°16'55"N
Longitude: 113°58'8"W
A former surface and underground Au-Ag-Cu mine located in the center of sec. 1, T2S, R17W, on federal land. Owned at times, or in part, by Fries; Quartette Mining Co.; Ely; and the Nassan Mining Co.
Mineralization is fine-grained, free gold with silver and minor copper minerals with iron and manganese-stained quartz in an irregular farcture zone cutting Cretaceous or Tertiary andesite.
Workings in clude a shaft(s) and open cut operations. This mine was worked sporadically in 1914-1917, 1935-1936, and 1940. It produced some 550 tons of ore averaging about 1.3 oz. Au/T, 2.0 oz. Ag/T and 0.2% Cu.
References
Wilson, E.D., Cunningham, J.B., and Butler, G.M. (1934), Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining (revised 1967), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 137: 142.
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: 156 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10186227, MAS ID #0040270329; and, Dep. ID #10234853, MAS ID #0040270796.
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