Papago Queen Mine (Saginaw Hill Mine; Gold Hill Mine), Amole Mine group, Saginaw Hill (Saginaw property), Amole District, Tucson Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA

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‡Ref.: Allen, M.A. (1920), Notes on the Southern Section of the Amole District, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 106: 21.

Kinnison, J.E. (1958) Geology and ore deposits of the southern section of the Amole mining district, Tucson Mountains, Pima County, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. thesis, 126 p.: 109-110.

Keith, Stanton B. (1974), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, Arizona: 102 (Table 4).

Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 13 (Table 1).

Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10256514, MAS ID #0040190354.

A former surface and underground Cu-Ag-Au-Mo mine located in West-central (NE¼NW¼SW¼) sec. 12, T.15S., R.12E. (Cat Mountain 7.5 minute topo map). Owned/operated at times, or in part, by the Saginaw Mining Co.; Papago Queen Mining Co.; the Tucson Arizona Copper Co.; and Strong & Harris.

Mineralization is disseminated copper oxides and carbonates with minor molybdenum oxides in quartz veins and along fractures in a weakly altered, brecciated, and mineralized Laramide (?) porphyry stock.

Workings include tunnel and open cut operations. Sporadic production of copper ore occurred from 1917 to 1934, and of smelter flux in 1956 through 1959. Total output was some 3,700 tons averaging about 1% Cu and 0.5 oz. Ag/T.

Mineral List

Cuprite

Malachite

2 entries listed. 2 valid minerals.