Latitude: 33°44'23"N
Longitude: 113°13'53"W
‡Ref.: Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 338; Sandell, W.G. & D.T. Holmes (1948), Concentration of oxide manganese ores from the Aguila District, AZ, US Bur. Mines Rept. Inv. 4330; Farnham, L.L. & L.A. Stewart (1958), Manganese deposits of western AZ, US Bur. of Mines Inf. Circ. 7843: 21; AZ Dept. Min. Resources (ADMR) Black Queen Mine file; AZ Bur. Mines Bull. 127: 68; US Bur. Mines - file data; USGS 15 minute Aguila topo. map; AZ Dept. Min. Resources (ADMR) "U" file; Wilson, E.D. & G.M. Butler (1930), Manganese ore deposits of AZ, AZ Bur. Mines Bull. 127: 68-71; Jones, E.L., Jr. & F.L. Ransome (1920), Deposits of manganese ore in Arizona, USGS Bull. 710-D: 135, 142; MRDS files #10027589, 10027068, 10283725 & 10210561.
A surface and underground Mn-Baryte mine on 2 claims. Discovered in 1916 by J. Hatton & produced 1917-1919. Located in secs. 29 & 30, T.5N., R.9W,about 30 miles SE of Aguila and about 5 miles west of Wood Chopper Tank, at an altitude of about 2,000 feet. Owned by J. Hatton and under lease to the Noble Electric Steel Co., of San Francisco (circa 1920).
33.75361; -113.23528, or 33.75420; -113.23530, or 33.62917; -113.11583.
Mineralization is a vein deposit with lens-shaped orebodies. Two E-W faults displace the mineralized zone 70 feet.
The deposit lies in some low hills at 2,000 feet of altitude. These hills in the vicinity of the manganese deposits are composed of lava flows and the rock which encloses the deposit is a fine-grained rhyolite. It is a vein that strikes N.20ºE. and dips 75ºW, and is about 2 feet wide. Another vein exists 200 feet East, but is barren of ore.
The vein material on the surface is composed of manganese and iron oxides with some secondary calcite. The manganese oxide is pyrolusite and is intimately mixed with iron oxides.
Workings include a 300 foot long trench and a 14 foot deep shaft (1918).
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