‡Ref.: Bancroft, H. (1911), Reconnaissance of the ore deposits in northern Yuma County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 451: 90-91.
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: 171 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10109003, MRDS ID #M001810; and, Dep. ID #10283510, MAS ID #0040120309; and, Dep. ID #10283722, MAS ID #0040120442.
A former surface and underground Pb-Ag-Zn-Cu-Au-Fe mine located in the NW¼ sec. 16, T5N, R17W, 9 miles S of Bouse, 1 mile NE of Ibex Mountain, on BLM-administered land. Owned at times, or in part, by Cowell & Brown; Brewer; and the Southern Cross Mining Co.
Mineralization is spotty stringers and pods of galena and secondary copper and lead minerals with quartz and iron oxides in a strong fault zone cutting metamorphosed Mesozoic sedimentary series of limestone and quartzite intruded by diabase dikes and a plug.
Workings on the property are only of a prospecting nature, and consist mainly of superficial exploration with open cuts and a shallow shaft. This mine was worked in the 1900's and in 1948 through 1958. It produced some 1,370 tons of ore averaging about 14% Pb, 4 oz. Ag/T, 1.4% Zn, 0.03 oz. Au/T, and 0.1% Cu.
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Map Reference: 33°46'42"N , 114°2'9"W
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