A Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag mining area located in T3-5S, R19-21E, about 4 miles NW of the Black Rock Wilderness Study Area (WSA) on the western slope of the Turnbull Mountains, the extreme northern Santa Teresa Mountains, and the Stanley Butte area. A portion of this district is on the San Carlos Indian Reservation. This is on the west side of the Tertiary Santa Teresa granite batholith, R21E, T5S.
Deposits are vein and replacement deposits in Carboniferous age sediments (Tornado Limestone); also in Cretaceous andesites and tertiary volcanics.
References
Ross, C.P. (1925a), Geology and ore deposits of the Aravaipa and Stanley mining districts, Graham County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 763.
Wilson, E.D., et al (1950), Arizona zinc and lead deposits, part I, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 156.
Ryan, G.S. (1985), Mineral investigation of the Black Rock Wilderness Study Area, Graham County, Arizona. U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment MLA 5-85: 6-7.
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 101, 112, 158, 166, 215, 235, 377.
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