Latitude: 31°27'21"N
Longitude: 111°15'9"W
Ref.: Keith, Stanton B. (1975), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County Arizona: 63 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10026780, MRDS ID #M000220; and, Dep. ID #10137408, MAS ID #0040230042.
A former small surface and underground Au-Ag-Cu-Pb-Zn mine located in the center of sec. 6, T.23S., R.11E, 1 mile W and S of Ruby, on National Forest land. First produced 1937 and closed in 1940. Owned at times, or in part, by Parrish; and, Hack.
Mineralization is a lensing quartz-fissure vein along a contact zone of Jurassic quartz latite tuff and Laramide diorite with spotty base metal sulfides. Enriched near the surface in gold and silver values.
Workings include shallow shaft and open cut operations. Some 100 tons of ore averaging about 0.3 oz. Au/T, 4 oz. Ag/T and minor Cu produced from 1937 through 1940.
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