Latitude: 33°59'20"N
Longitude: 112°32'24"W
‡Ref.: Wilson, E.D. (1941), Tungsten Deposits of Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 148: 24.
Dale, V.B. (1961), Tungsten Deposits of Gila, Yavapai, and Mohave Counties, Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8078: 38.
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, AZ Dept. Mines & Min. Resources Open File Rept. 92-10: 17 (Table 1).
USGS Red Picacho Quadrangle map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Climax Mine file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Kelly Brown proeprty file.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10109052, MRDS ID #M003416.
A former surface and underground W-Cu-Au-Ag-Pb-Mo-Be mine located in the SE¼ sec. 35, T.8N., R.3W. (Red Picacho 7.5 minute topo map),
upper San Domingo Wash, 13 miles East of Morristown and about ¾ mile North of Buena Vista claim.
Mineralization is a lenticular ore body hosted in fine-grained, sericitic schist striking Eastward and dipping 65ºN. It contains several zones bearing scheelite. The principal outcrop is traceable for 100 feet (30 meters). Ore control was schistosity. Alteration includes an epidote-garnet skarn zone, silicification and seritization.
Area structures include schist which strikes E with a N north. Cross fractures are also mineralized.
Workings include a shallow cut and a short adit.
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