Latitude: 31°39'32"N
Longitude: 110°55'10"W
‡Ref.: Schrader, F.C. & J.M. Hill (1915), Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, USGS Bull. 582: 187-188, 214.
Keith, Stanton B. (1975), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County Arizona: 88 (Table 4).
U.S. Bureau of Mines field notes, CU45.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10113500, MAS ID #0040230399.
A former underground Cu-Ag mine located in SW¼SW¼ sec. 28, T.20S., R.14E., 3½ miles north of Wise's Ranch, 5 miles NNW of Salero, and 1 mile west of Josephine Canyon, in the foothills, on National Forest land. Owned at times, or in part, by Allen; and Wingfield & Farrel.
Mineralization is copper carbonates and sparse sulfides as irregular replacements in engulfed exotic blocks of Paleozoic limestone and in ferruginous quartz-fissure veins in Cretaceous dacite volcanic breccia. Associated Tertiary quartz latite dikes. The deposit is a prominent 40 foot wide silicified, iron-bearing or ferruginous ledge, in intrusive diorite or andesite, on or near its contact with the Paleozoic limestone, which dips to the SSW.
Workings include adit operations. Worke din the early 1900's and in 1954, producing some 650 tons of ore averaging about 8% Cu and 1 oz. Ag/T.
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