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Franklin-Cushing & Marion Mine group (Rosemont group; Lewisohn Estate), Helvetia-Rosemont District, Santa Rita Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 31°49'59"N
Longitude: 110°45'50"W
Longitude: 110°45'50"W
USGS Sahuarita Quadrangle topo map.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10137946, MAS ID #0040190226.
A former underground Cu-Ag-Au mine group located in South-central (SW¼SE¼) sec. 25, T.18S., R.15E, on private land. Owned by the Lewisohn Estate, then ASARCO from 1988. These patented claims are part of the Helvetia property owned by ASARCO (1992).
Mineralization is a fissure vein with relatively small, spotty, irregular, and shallow pyrometasomatic deposits of copper carbonates and minor sulfides in thrust-faulted, silicated, Paleozoic limestone blocks.
Workings include tunnel operations. Produced some 150 tons of ore averaging about 4% Cu and 2 oz. Ag/T in 1944.
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New Locality Added: Lägern (Otelfingen; Boppelsen), Limmattal, Zürich, SwitzerlandFrom Richard Muster, 19th Jun 2013 20:38:43