Latitude: 32°46'56"N
Longitude: 114°23'3"W
A former surface Au-Ag placer deposit and mine area located in the NW ¼ sec. 35, T7S, R21W.
Mineralization is spotty placer gold in gulches and old channels in the pediment along the SE foot of the Laguna Mountains. This gold is derived from the gold-bearing quartz veins in Mesozoic schist.
Workings are scattered, small placer operations carried out from about the late 1850's to the 1950's. Total estimated and recorded production would be a few thousand oz. gold with minor silver.
References
Raymond (1872): 272.
Wilson, E.D. (1933) Geology and Mineral Deposits of Southern Yuma County, Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 134: 217.
Butler, G.M. (1937) Arizona Gold Placers and Placering. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 142: 20.
Butler, G.M. (1952) Arizona Gold Placers and Placering, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 160: 21.
Wilson, E.D. (1961) Gold Placers and Placering in Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 168 (revised 1978): 21-22.
Johnson, M.G. (1972), Placer gold deposits of Arizona, USGS Bull. 1355.
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: 157 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027238, MRDS ID #M002576; and, Dep. ID file #10113614, MAS ID #0040270259.
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