Latitude: 32°1'50"N
Longitude: 111°54'57"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: 113 (Table 4).
U.S. Bureau of Mines card file.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10108963, MRDS ID #M000053; and, Dep. ID #10210265, MAS ID #0040190420.
A former small underground Ag-Cu-Au-Pb-Zn mine located in South-central sec. 15, T.16S., R.4E. (protracted)(also secs. 14, 22 & 23 ?), 10 miles NNW of Sells. Produced 1949-1952. Owned by the Sun Gold Mining Co.
Mineralization is ore in irregular, lenses and pods in a partly oxidized quartz vein with dolomite stringers and spotty sulfides, including ruby silver, along a strong fracture zone cutting Cretaceous (?) andesite flows. Pockets of high-grade gold values. The host rock unit is diorite. An associated rock unit is andesite.
Workings include shallow shaft operations. Worked sporadically during 1949-1952, producing a small tonnage of ore averaging about 3.7 oz. Au/T, 11% Pb, 8 oz. Ag/T, 3% Zn & 1% Cu.
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