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Emperor & Dutchess Mines, Cababi District (Comobabi District), Comobabi Mts, Tohono O'odom (Papago) Indian Reservation, Pima Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 32°1'26"N
Longitude: 111°50'53"W
‡Ref.: Keith, Stanton B. (1974), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, Arizona: 111 (Table 4).

Arizona Bureau of Mines files data.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10137643, MAS ID #0040190207.

A former underground Cu-Au-Ag-Pb-Zn mine located in East-central sec. 29, T.16S., R.5E. (protracted). Owned by the Emperor & Dutchess Mines Co.

Mineralization is partly oxidized, lensing quartz-calcite vein with chalcocite and minor lead and zinc minerals along a fissure zone cutting altered Laramide granitic intrusive.

Workings are shallow. Some 140 tons of ore averaging 0.01 oz. Au/T, 9 oz. Ag/T, and 5% Cu, were produced in 1951.

Mineral List

Calcite
Chalcocite


2 entries listed. 2 valid minerals.

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