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Lead King Mine (O'Neals Mine), Wrightson District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 31°37'0"N
Longitude: 110°48'6"W
‡Ref.: Keith, Stanton B. (1975), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County Arizona: 90 (Table 4).

Arizona Bureau of Mines card file Santa Cruz County.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10113530, MAS ID #0040230254.

A former underground Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn mine located in South-central sec. 10, T.21S., R.15E, on National Forest land. Owned at times, or in part, by Blabon; and, Bradsher.

Mineralization is a lensing quartz-fissure vein containing spotty sulfides with a calcite-barite-quartz gangue. Wall rocks are altered Triassic and Cretaceous volcanics intruded by Laramide dikes.

Workings include adit operations. Worked mainly from 1933 through 1942. It produced some 280 tons of ore averaging about 12% Pb, 6% Cu, 13 oz. Ag/T and minor Au.

Mineral List

Baryte
Calcite
Chalcopyrite
Galena
var: Argentiferous Galena

Pyrite
Quartz
Sphalerite


7 entries listed. 6 valid minerals.

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