Latitude: 33°39'11"N
Longitude: 114°15'17"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: 161 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10234325, MAS ID #0040120295.
A former underground Au-Ag-Cu-Zn-Pb mine.
A Au-Ag-Cu-Pb-Zn mine located in the SE¼ sec. 30, T4N, R19W, on land of unknown status. Owned/operated at times, or in part, by the Simpson & Kock Mining Co.; Quartzite Mining Co.; and, Bartlett.
Mineralization is spotty gold and silver, with minor oxidized base metal sulfides, in quartz veins and stringers along a fracture zone in Mesozoic granite, intruded by later pegmatite dikes.
Workings include a shaft(s). The old mine was reworked from 1937 through 1940, producing a probable total of some 350 tons of ore averaging about 0.55 oz. Au/T and 0.1 oz. Ag/T.
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