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Climax Mine (Virginia Dare group; Montgomery; Lion; Cub; Leopard), Groom Creek District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 34°24'43"N
Longitude: 112°31'22"W
‡Ref.: Yavapai Magazine (1918) May, 1918: 5-6.

Lindgren, W. (1926), Ore deposits of the Jerome and Bradshaw Mountains quadrangles, Arizona, USGS Bull. 782: 113.

U.S. Bureau of Mines - Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology file data.

Blandy, J.F. ( ) Mining Region Around Prescott. A.I.M.E. Transactions: ?: ?.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Climax Mine file.

USGS Wilhoit Quadrangle map.

MRDS database Dep. ID #10109858, MRDS ID #M800330; and, Dep. ID #10234488, MAS ID #0040250509.

A former underground Au-Ag-Cu-Pb mine. Started about 1905 and closed 1907; reopened 1914 and closed in 1920. Produced 1903-1944.

Mineralization is a vein deposit with a tabular ore body. Ore control was faulting and shearing. Ore concentration was oxidation at near surface. No alteration observed.

Area structures include dikes and veins parallel to foliation in Precambrian rocks, which trends N-S.

Mineral List

Calcite
Fluorite
Pyrite


3 entries listed. 3 valid minerals.

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