Latitude: 33°25'51"N
Longitude: 110°51'47"W
A former surface and underground Cu-Au-Ag mine located on 2 unpatented claims in the center E½ sec. 18, T1N, R15E, about 1 mile NE of Moonshine Hill, about 1¾ miles NNW of Claypool, on private land. Discovered in 1878. Produced 1878-1937. Previously owned by Frank Thompson (1916), and at one time owned by the Show Me Copper Co. Owned by Mr. J.W. Strode (1949). Operated by the Amico Mining Corp. (Anaconda) (1947).
Mineralization is two parallel veins in fissure zones, hosted in Precambrian Pinal Schist. The ore zone is 91.44 meters long, 3.66 meters wide, strikes NE and dips vertically. An associated rock unit is the Lost Gulch Quartz Monzonite. Ore control was a NE-trending fault zone - the Miami Fault, and veins in schist directly west of the fault, where Lost Gulch Quartz Monzonite intrudes into the Pinal Schist.
Workings include shafts, drifts and tunnels (1881) totalling 609.6 meters in length and 53.34 meters deep. The tunnel was 1000 feet in length as well as 3 winzes and a shaft extending down from the tunnel. At one time there was also a small pit. A 10-stamp mill was erected on the property. ABGMT-USBM production data only includes the period of the 1930's; they do not include the period 1878-1900, when the major product was gold. No production reported during the period 1901-1934.
References
The Resources of Arizona - A Manual of Reliable Information Concerning the Territory, compiled by Patrick Hamilton (1881), Scottsdale, Arizona: 63.
U.S. Bureau of Mines - Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mining Technology file data.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Golden Eagle group file.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10046314, MRDS ID #M241220; and Dep. ID #10137064, MAS ID #0040070344.
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