C and B Mine (C & B Mine; C. and B. Mine; C & B Group Mine; Vanadium Mine; Vanadium property; International property; Cutler and Bywater Mine), Christmas, Christmas area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA
LanarkiteC and B Mine, Christmas, Christmas area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA
Photo: 2005 M. Kampf Latitude: 33°7'58"N
Longitude: 110°49'59"W
A former surface and underground V-Mo-Pb-Ag-Cu-Au-Bi-Zn-W mine located in the NE¼ sec. 32, T3S, R15E, 10 miles NW of Christmas, ½ mile S of Dripping Springs Wash, on state land. Owned by E. E. Cutler and C. Bywater (1952).
Mineralization is a vein deposit with a linear ore body hosted in Mescal Limestone. Ore control was the contact of the limestone and diabase. The ore body strikes N60E and dips SE, while the contact strikes N35W and dips NE. Alteration was some silicification. The vein matter was well oxidized.
The paragenetic sequence is vanadinite, mimetite, descloizite, calcite. Vanadinite & wulfenite are present in soft material and as coatings on brecciated diabase for widths of a few feet. Cavities left by oxidized galena crystals also contain vanadinite.
Area structures include N10-35W striking, E-dipping fracture zones.
3 channel samples averaged 0.33 oz/t Ag, 1.92% V, 6.2% Pb. One sample assayed 0.17% V and traces of Ag & Pb.
Workings included a 20 foot adit existing in 1925. During subsequent work a number of adits and one shaft several hundred feet deep were developed. A little ore was mined and some is reported to have been shipped during WWI.
A site visit during February, 2007, revealed a barren dump and numerous foundation structures from a large mill and other structures. Permission to access the site is required of a local rancher. Examination of the adit openings from the portals revealed seemingly very dangerous mine openings with unstable ceilings and unprotected vertical workings unsuited to entry by anyone other than an experienced miner with all appropriate equipment. NOTE: Accurate coordinates obtained January, 2007 (upper right adit).
References
Allen, M.A. & G.M. Butler (1921c), Vanadium, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 115.
Ross, Clyde P. (1925) Ore Deposits of the Saddle Mountain and Banner Mining Districts, Arizona, USGS Bull. 771.
Ransome, F.L. (1923) Ray folio, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Atlas of the United States, Folio no. 217, 24 p. [oversized], 5 sheets, scales 1:12,000 and 1:62,500.
Tenney, J.B. (1930), The Second Report on the Mineral Industries of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 129: 90.
Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 73, 80.
Trebisky, T.J. & S.B. Keith (1975), Descloizite from the C and B Vanadium mine, Mineralogical Record: 6: 109.
Cornwall, H.R., and Krieger, M.H. (1978) Geologic map of the El Capitan Mountain quadrangle, Gila and Pinal Counties, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1442, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.
Crowley, J.A. (1980), The C. and B. mine, Gila County, Arizona, Mineralogical Record: 11: 213-218.
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 157, 201, 254, 271, 410.
USGS Map MR-22: 3.
USGS El Capitan Mountain Quadrangle map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources card file.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10026843, MRDS ID #M000497; and Dep ID #10233701, MAS ID #0040070678; and Dep. ID #10008147, MRDS ID #D000090.
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