‡Ref.: Copper Handbook (1903).
Stevens, P. (1908) The Copper Handbook, Vol. VIII.
Keith, Stanton B. (1974), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, Arizona: 114 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10026917, MRDS ID #M001055; and, Dep. ID #10283556, AS ID #0040190288.
A former small surface and underground Ag-Au-Pb-Cu mine located in the NE ¼ sec. 16, T.20S., R.10E., 8½ miles N of Arivaca. Owned by the Liberty Mining & Smelting Co.
Mineralization is irregular quartz-fissure vein with spotty, oxidized, argentiferous galena and minor gold and copper minerals.
Workings include shaft and pit operations. Operated sporadically fom the mid-1800's to the early 1900's, producing some 100 tons of ore averaging about 80 oz. Ag/T, 0.5 oz. Au/T and minor Pb & Cu.
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Map Reference: 31°41'39"N , 111°19'13"W
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