Latitude: 33°48'46"N
Longitude: 114°24'10"W
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 County, Arizona: 158 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10258919, MAS ID #0040120029.
A former underground Au-Ag mine located in the SE ΒΌ, sec. 35, T6N, R21W. Owned at times, or in part, by the Moon Mountain Gold Mining Co.; and, the Mohave Mining Co.
Mineralization is spotty gold and silver with minor, partly oxidized, sulfides in lensing quartz veins along a fracture zone in Mesozoic metamorphic rocks intruded by a small Laramide rhyolitic plug.
Workings include a shaft(s) and tunnel openings. This mine was worked from 1935 through 1950. It produced some 330 tons of ore averaging about 2.4 oz. Au/T and 0.4 oz. Ag/T.
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