Latitude: 31°29'31"N
Longitude: 110°48'0"W
‡Ref.: Wilson, E.D. (1927), Arizona gold placers, 2nd. ed. (revised), University of Arizona Bull. 124: 56.
Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 132 (1932), Arizona Gold Placers and Placering: 68.
Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 135 (1933), Arizona gold placers and placering: 79.
Wilson, E.D. (1961) Gold Placers and Placering in Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 168 (revised 1978): 84.
Johnson, M.G. (1972), Placer gold deposits of Arizona, USGS Bull. 1355: 49.
Keith, Stanton B. (1975), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County Arizona: 73 (Table 4).
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 236.
U.S. Bureau of Mines card file.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10108974, MRDS ID #M000558.
A former small placer gold mine/deposit area located in sec. 27, T22S, R15E, in Three R Canyon, 2.5 miles NW of the Three R Mine about 6 miles SW of Palmetto, on private land. Last produced 1927. Owned (320 acres) by the Patagonia Placer Mines Co. (circa 1927).
Mineralization is gold-bearing Quaternary gravels. Ore control was detrital gold probably eroded from small gold-bearing veins in the vicinity of the placers.
Sluice and drag-line installed in 1927 but abandoned after 1 month's operation. Suspended work 1927. No production figures given; probably small (a few ounces of gold were produced).
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