QuartzHuachuca placers, Ash Canyon, Hartford District, Huachuca Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Photo: Rob Lavinsky ‡Ref.: Wilson, E.D. (1927), Arizona Gold Pacers, 2nd. ed. (revised), University of Arizona Bull. 124: 52.
Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 135 (1933), Arizona Gold placers and placering: 71.
A placer gold deposit area about 12 miles SW of Hereford.
Mineralization is placer gravels that occur along the canyon bottom for a length of about 3 miles. Gold-bearing gravels contain numerous sub-angular boulders up to seeral feet in diameter and more or less iron-stained sand, but practically no clay. Most gold occurs on or near the bedrock.
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