Latitude: 34°38'45"N
Longitude: 112°6'55"W
‡Ref.: Lindgren, W. (1926), Ore deposits of the Jerome and Bradshaw Mountains quadrangles, Arizona, USGS Bull. 782: 39, 100.
Anderson, C.A. & S.C. Creasey (1958), Geology and ore deposits of the Jerome area, Yavapai County, Arizona, USGS PP 308: 177.
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 371.
USGS Cottonwood Quadrangle map.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10027259, MRDS ID #M002655; and, Dep. ID #10283467, MAS ID #0040250346.
A former surface and underground Pb-Zn-Fe-Quartz prospect/mine located on the South side of Black Canyon, about midway between Black Canyon and Ash Creek, south of Mingus Mountain, at 6,200 feet of altitude.
Mineralization is a vein dipping E or SE at 50º with a lenticular ore body. Ore is massive. Country rock is a wide granodiorite porphyry dike that cuts the Deception and Buzzard rhyolite masses, which, near the vein, shows chloritic alteration.
Workings include 2 small prospect pits.
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