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Gilbert claims, Dragoon, Cochise District, Little Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

‡Ref.: Wilson, E.D. (1941), Tungsten Deposits of Arizona, Geological Series No. 14, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 148: 44.

A Cu-W group of claims located about 1½ miles West of Dragoon. Owned by the Burrell Brothers (1940).

Mineralization is at a pediment, largely covered with alluvium at the SE base of the mountains. A small outcrop of Paleozoic limestone is cut by narrow altered dark porphyry dikes of N.30ºE.strike and by a quartz vein that strikes N.50ºE. and dips 80ºNW. Then outcrop is 4 to 12 inches (10 to 30 cm) wide and is traceable for 200 feet. The vein consists od coarsely crystalline, grayish-white quartz and carbonates plus scheelite.





Mineral List:
  • Cuprotungstite
  • Scheelite


    2 entries listed. 2 valid minerals.

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