Latitude: 31°52'55"N
Longitude: 110°36'37"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: 118 (Table 4).
USGS Empire Mountains Quadrangle topo map.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10108971, MRDS ID #M000282; and, Dep. ID #10283886, MAS ID #0040190239.
A former small underground Pb-Cu-Zn-Ag-Au mine located in East-central sec. 9, T.18S., R.17E., 31 miles SE of Tucson. Operated 1941-1943. Owned/operated by Gathin and Weaver; and, E.P. Hilton.
Mineralization is small replacement bodies of lead, copper, and zinc carbonates and minor sulfides in faulted and folded Paleozoic limestone close to a large Larmaide intrusive (quartz monzonite).
Workings include shallow openings of an unknown type. Produced some 120 tons of ore in 1941 and 1943, averaging about 6% Pb, 2% Zn, 3% Cu, 19 oz. Ag/T and 0.1 oz. Au/T.
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