Latitude: 33°17'5"N
Longitude: 113°57'24"W
A former surface and underground W-Au-Ag-Pb-Cu mine located in West-central (center W½) sec. 6, T2S, R16W, on federal land. Owned at times, or in part, by Meyers; and, Gibson.
Mineralization is narrow stringers, pods, and disseminated small grains of scheelite with sparse copper and lead sulfides in quartz lenses along fractures in Mesozoic schist at the base of Cretaceous or Tertiary andesite and cut off by a quartz monzonite dike to the East. Sparse and spotty gold.Workings include a shaft(s) and pit operations. This site was originally prospected for gold and later (in the 1950's) for tungsten. Some 54 short ton units of WO3 were produced from picked 1% WO3 ore.
References
Dale, V.B. (1959) Tungsten Deposits of Yuma, Maricopa, Pinal, and Graham Counties, Arizona. U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5516: 26-27.
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).
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10259063, MAS ID #0040270394.
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