‡Ref.: Schrader, F.C. (1915) Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, with contributions by J.M. Hill: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 582, 373 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:125,000: 171-172.
Schrader, F.C. (1917), The geologic distribution and genesis of the metals in the Santa Rita-Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, Economic Geology: 12: 237-269.
US Atomic Energy Commission Preliminary Reconnaissance Report Pima County (1957): 653.
Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 48, 102.
Keith, Stanton B. (1975), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County Arizona: 129 (Table 4).
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 370, 400.
USGS Sahuarita Quadrangle topo map.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10210933, MRDS ID #M050172, MAS ID #0040190258.
A former surface and underground Cu-Ag-Au-U mine located in the SW¼SE¼SE¼ sec. 24, T.19S., R.14E. Owned at times, or in part, by the Old Hickory Copper Co.; and, Parber.
Mineralization is compound quartz-fissure vein and stockwork with copper carbonates and sulfides, cutting a Laramide granodiorite intrusive. Some disseminated chalcocite in the wall rock.
Workings include shafts and tunnels. Produced intermittently some 200 tons of picked 9% Cu and 3 oz. Ag/T ore, mainly in 1915-1919.
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