Dog Water Mine (Dogwater Mine; Silver Cable Mine; Silver Cable claim; Dogwater and Silver Cable Mine; Patented claims MS 1760), Laurel Canyon, Grand Reef Mountain, Klondyke, Santa Teresa Mts, Aravaipa District, Graham Co., Arizona, USA

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A group of 2 former underground Pb-Zn-Cu-Au-Mo-Ag mines located about ¾ mile south of the Grand Reef Mine and 2.7 miles NNE of Klondyke. Owned by American Zinc, Lead, and Smelting Co., of St. Louis, Missouri. Also known as / designated: Calistoga Mining and Development Co. property.

Mineralization is the Dog Water lode and the Silver Cable lode, smaller branchs of the Grand Reef lode on its southern end. (See the Grand Reef Mine description). A tabular ore body is hosted in Pinal Schist. Associated rock units are the Horse Mountain volcanics; Goodwin Canyon Quartz Monzonite; and possibly Santa Teresa Granite. Ore control was silicified fault breccia. Ore concentration was supergene enrichment. Alteration was silicification in fault breccia, strong alteration to white clay minerals. Wulfenite occurs in veins up to 1 inch thick.

Area structures include block faulting trending NNW. Regional trends: minor Pre-Cretaceous E- and NE-trending folds. The Waterfall Canyon Fault offsetting the Grand Reef Fault.

The workings include the Dogwater adit about 140 feet long, with a small stope to the surface and a short winze. The Silver Cable adit is a few hundred feet long with stopes and is located 250 feet NNE of the Dogwater adit. Reported as producing ore in 1938. Production was 160 tons of concentrates. The only known production is part of a 117 ton shipment of which part came from the Granf Reef and Aravaipa Mines.

References

Ross, C.P. (1925a), Geology and ore deposits of the Aravaipa and Stanley mining districts, Graham County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 763: 78-86.

Denton, T.C. (1947) Old Reliable Mine. U.S Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 4006.

Galbraith, F.W. (1947), Minerals of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 153: 15.

Wilson, E.D., et al (1950), Arizona zinc and lead deposits, part I, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 156: 60-62.

Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 80.

Simons, F.S. (1964), Geology of the Klondyke quadrangle, Graham and Pinal Counties, Arizona, USGS PP 461: 147.

Brown, S.D. (1993) Mineral Appraisal of the Coronado National Forest, part 10, Santa Teresa Mountains Unit, Graham County, Arizona, U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report MLA 26-93, 53 pp.

Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 100, 290, 332, 425.

U.S. Bureau of Land Management Mining District Sheet #753.

USGS Klondyke Quadrangle map.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Grand Reef file.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Dog Water and Silver Cable claims file.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources FAR Mining Resources file.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Aravaipa Mining District Geology file.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources U file.

MRDS database Dep. ID #10103742, MRDS ID #M050154; and Dep. ID #10233641, MRDS ID #TC10201, MAS ID #0040090127.

Mineral List

Acanthite Anglesite Cerussite

Chrysocolla Fluorite Galena

Malachite Massicot Plumbojarosite

Quartz var: Chalcedony Wulfenite

11 entries listed. 10 valid minerals.