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Jupiter Mine (Jupiter prospect), Trigo Mountains District (Cibola District), Trigo Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 33°17'12"N
Longitude: 114°34'56"W
‡Ref.: Wilson, E.D. (1933) Geology and Mineral Deposits of Southern Yuma County, Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 134: 73.

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: 181 (Table 4).

Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027193, MRDS ID #M002432; and, Dep. ID #10210931, MAS ID #0040120296.

A Au-Ag mine with underground workings located in sec. 1, T2S, R23W, about ½ mile North of the Boardway prospect, 5.2 miles WSW of Cibola, on BLM-administered land. Owned by Messrs. S.J. & B.H. Blair.

The mineralogy & geology similar to those of the Grand Central Mine. The vein is hosted in schist and dips about 15S at about 1½ feet (0.5 meters) thick at the outcrop, branches near the surface and pinches and swells inward. It consists of dense white quartz with considerable limonite in fractures and small pockets.

Workings include a 20 foot (6.1 meters) long tunnel.

Mineral List

Gold
Limonite
Quartz
var: Milky Quartz



3 entries listed. 1 valid mineral.

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