Latitude: 31°24'39"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).
U.S. Bureau of Mines staff (1994) U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report MLA XX-94: A28.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10026782, MRDS ID #M000227.
A former small surface and underground Ag-Au-Pb-Cu-Zn mine located in the SW¼ sec. 19, T.23S., R.11E, W of California Gulch, on National Forest land. Produced 1875-1934. Owned by Sanders.
Mineralization is irregular quartz-fissure veins with weak and spotty base metal sulfides, mostly oxidized near the surface with supergene enrichment in silver.
Workings include shaft and open cut operations. Prospected and worked originally in the late 1800's and again in 1934. Production would be some 100 tons of ore averaging about 32 oz. Ag/T, 0.1 oz. Au/T and minor Pb & Cu.
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