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Hawk group of claims (Hawk shaft; Wien claims), Cochise District, Little Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 32°3'19"N
Longitude: 110°5'17"W
‡Ref.: Wilson, E.D. (1941), Tungsten Deposits of Arizona, Geological Series No. 14, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 148: 43.

Cooper, J.R. & L.T. Silver (1964), Geology and Ore Deposits of the Dragoon Quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona, USGS PP 416.

Livingston, D.E., Damon, P.E., Mauger, R.L., Bennett, R., and Laughlin, A.W. (1967) Argon 40 in cogenetic feldspar-mica mineral assemblages: Journal of Geophysical Research: 72(4): 1361-1375.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10103731, MRDS ID #M050024.

A former small surface and underground W mine on 5 claims. Discovered 1898 by Asa Walker; owned by J.J. Wien (1940).

Mineralization is a vein system with ore in quartz veins. An associated rock unit is the Texas Canyon Quartz Monzonite (53 ± 3 MY).

Local structures include Tertiary block faults trending NW. Regional trends include Late Cretaceous or Early Tertiary N- and NW-trending folds and thrust faults overriding to the NE. Small faults and shears.

Workings include a series of shallow cuts and short adits over a distance of 4,500 feet.

Mineral List

Hübnerite


1 entry listed. 1 valid mineral.

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