Latitude: 33°16'27"N
Longitude: 111°4'18"W
A former underground Pb-Fe-V-Mo-Mn group of claims / mine located in sec. 12, T2S, R12E, on the westerly slope of Apache Leap, near Superior, on National Forest land. Owned by the Consolidated Holding & Trust Co. of Arizona (1919); Owned by Hugh R. Daggs of Arizona (1942); and the Magma Copper Co. of Arizona (1980).
The claims extend into secs. 1, 11, 13, 14 and into secs. 7, 18, 25 13E.
Also designated / known as: unpatented claim MS 3095; unpatented claim MS 3097; unpatented caims MS 2836; unpatented claims MS 3093; unpatented claims MS 3094; patented and unpatented claims MS 2839a; patented and unpatented claims MS 3581; patented and unpatented claims MS 2837; patented and unpatented claims MS 2838; patented claim MS 3096.
Mineralization is an orebody in limestone just above the contact with the underlying quartzite near a prominent fault that strikes N.70ºW. and dips steeply SW. It is 1 to 3 feet (0.3 to 0.9 meters) thick. It consists of Mn & Fe-oxides with variable amounts of secondary Pb & V minerals.
Workings are extensive with a 700 foot deep shaft and a tunnel that connects with the shaft about 150 feet below the collar.
References
Jones, E.L., Jr. & F.L. Ransome (1920), Deposits of manganese ore in Arizona, USGS Bull. 710-D: 164-165.
Wilson, E.D. & G.M. Butler (1930), Manganese ore deposits in Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 127: 85-86.
Short, M.N., Galbraith, F.W., Harshman, E.N., Kuhn, T.H., and Wilson, E.D. (1943) Geology and Ore Deposits of the Superior Mining area, Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 151: 159.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management Mining District Sheets 609, 611.
USGS Superior quadrangle map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Magmatic Copper Mines file map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Magma Copper Co. Miscellaneous #1 file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources U file.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management unpatented ining claims lead file 60453.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10113245, MAS ID #0040210285.
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