Latitude: 32°7'14"N
Longitude: 111°27'11"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: 142 (Table 4).
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
Peirce, H. Wesley (1990), Arizona Geological Survey Industrial Minerals card file.
USGS Cocoraque Butte Quadrangle topo map.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10026765, MRDS ID #M000141; and, Dep. ID #10234948, MAS ID #0040190416.
A former small underground Ag-Cu-Pb-Au-Baryte-Mn mine located in West-central (NW¼NE¼SW¼) sec. 17, T.15S. R.9E, about 29 miles WSW of Tucson. Produced 1933-1939. Owned at times, or in part, by Brickta; and, Carpenter. Operated by St. Jude lease.
Mineralization includes acanthite and native silver with minor copper and lead minerals, manganese, and baryte in a fault zone cutting Cretaceous volcanics and sediments.
Workings include a shaft(s). Produced some 300 tons of ore, averaging about 33 oz. Ag/T, 1% Cu and minor lead and gold in 1933 and 1939.
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