Latitude: 31°59'8"N
Longitude: 111°49'0"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: 112 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10026854, MRDS ID #M000542; and, Dep. ID #10210488, MAS ID #0040190302.
A former small surface and underground Cu-Au-Ag mine located in the NE ΒΌ sec. 3, T.17S., R.5E. (protracted), 6 miles NE of Sells. Produced 1938-1948. Owned at times, or in part, by Gus Jaeger; and the Desert Gold Mining Co.
Mineralization is irregular, lensing, quartz-fissure vein with minor oxidized copper minerals cutting Laramide dioritic intrusive. Gold and silver are enriched in the oxidized zone.
Workings include and inclined shaft and trenches. Up to 100 tons of ore were produced in 1938 and 1948, averaging about 0.4 oz. Au/T and 0.4 oz. Ag/T, with minor copper.
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