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USGS 15 minute Belmont Mountains topo. map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources (ADMR) Belmont-McNeil mine file.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10062455 & 10113715.
A former underground Ag-Au-Pb-Cu mine located in the W½ sec. 36, T.4N., R.W. (Belmont Mountains 15 minute topo map), North of Tonopah and about 20 miles SW of Wickenburg in Belmont Mountain, a craggy, thin peak.
Mineralization involves veins cutting andesite in the Big Horn Mountains. These mountains are made up of a basement of Precambrian schist and gneiss, intruded, and partly covered by the Tertiary andesites.
Workings include a 500 foot deep shaft with levels at 100, 250, 400 & 500 feet.
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