Latitude: 31°38'21"N
Longitude: 110°48'6"W
A former underground Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn-Au mine located in the NE¼SE¼NW¼ sec. 3, T21S, R15E, adjoining the Philadelphia prospect on the north. Owned at times, or in part, by John Parks; the Anaconda-Arizona Mining Co.; Altamirano; and the Boulder Mining Co.
Mineralization is a 4 foot vein which dips 80ºS. The vein is composed mostly of crushed or brecciated reddish andesite cemented by quartz On the hanging or south wall it carries an 9 inch (22.5 cm) pay streak of ore which consists mainly of quartz, barite, limonite and sulphides-sulphosalts, the whole being more or less stained with malachite, azurite, and cerussite.
Workings are short tunnels and shafts in the side and bottom of a canyon-like gulch
References
The Resources of Arizona - A Manual of Reliable Information Concerning the Territory, compiled by Patrick Hamilton (1881), Prescott, AZ: 43.
Engineering & Mining Journal (Jan 15, 1910).
Schrader, F.C. & J.M. Hill (1915), Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, USGS Bull. 582: 236.
Bideaux, R.A., et al (1960), Some new occurrences of minerals of Arizona, Arizona Geological Society Digest: 3: 53-56.
Rohrbacker, R.T. (1964) Geology of the Temporal Gulch-Mansfield Canyon area, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. thesis, 81 p.
Keith, Stanton B. (1975), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County Arizona: 88 (Table 4).
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 177, 292, 325.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10161711, MAS ID #0040230343.
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