Howard Silver Mine (Howard Silver Company property; H S Tungsten Mine; Eclipse Mine; Patented claims MS 3882), Black Canyon, Bumble Bee, Black Canyon District, Wickenburg Mts, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 34°13'40"N
Longitude: 112°12'41"W
‡Ref.: Arizona Mining Journal (1922) December 15, 1922: 22.
Lindgren, W. (1926), Ore deposits of the Jerome and Bradshaw Mountains quadrangles, Arizona, USGS Bull. 782: 159.
Guiteras, J.R. (1936) Gold Mining and Milling in the Black Canyon area, Yavapai County, Arizona. U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 6905: 32.
Dale, V.B. (1961), Tungsten Deposits of Gila, Yavapai, and Mohave Counties, Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8078: 26-28.
U.S. Bureau of Mines - Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mining Technology file data.
USGS Bumble Bee Quadrangle map.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management Mining District Sheet 6.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Eclipse file.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10048051, MRDS ID #M800016; and, Dep. ID #10234469, MAS ID #0040251152.
A former underground Ag-Pb-W-Cu-Zn-Fe mine located about 1 mile from the Howard Copper Company mine. Discovered about 1922. Patented claims extend into sec. 1.
Mineralization is a flat vein with a tabular ore body in amphibolite that strikes N.50ºW. and dips 25ºNE. The vein is about 2 feet wide and consists of quartz filling with fine comb structure. Ore control was faulting and shearing. Ore concentration was oxidation at near surface. No alteration noted.
Area structures include foliation that trends N-S. This occurrence is adjacent to the Crazy Basin Batholith.
Working include a 200 foot deep incline and drifts to 200 feet to the West. Produced 1 carload of ore.
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