Latitude: 33°6'26"N
Longitude: 114°35'1"W
A small former underground Pb-Ag-Zn-Mo-Fe-V-Fluorspar-Baryte-Sr-Cu mine located in the center of sec. 1, T4S, R23W, just E of the Princess Mine, on BLM-administered land. Owned at time, or in part, by Jones; and the Geronimo Mining Co. Owned by Mr. S.P. Huss (1933).
Mineralization is narrow, pockety, quartz-fluorite veins with irregular masses of iron oxide, residual galena, and lead sulfate, carbonate, and oxide, in a 100 foot wide brecciated fault zone in silicified and carbonatized contact metamorphosed Tertiary volcanics. It is variously reported as in the Granite or in a brecciated zone in the andesite.
Workings include a few short tunnels and shaft operations. Probably found early but not worked extensively. Produced some 50 tons of ore in 1923 and 1948 averaging about 27% Pb, 9 oz. Ag/T and minor Au.
References
Wilson, E.D. (1933) Geology and Mineral Deposits of Southern Yuma County, Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 134: 64.
Galbraith, F.W. (1947), Minerals of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 153: 18.
Stewart, L.A. & A.J. Pfister (1960), Barite deposits of Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5651: 88-89.
Parker, F.Z. (1966) The Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Silver District Trigo Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona. Masters Thesis, San Diego State College.
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: 178 (Table 4).
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 223, 228,300, 410.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10102455, MRDS ID #M002449; and, Dep. ID #10258815, MAS ID #0040120432.
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