Latitude: 33°3'54"N
Longitude: 109°24'20"W
A former underground Pb-Au-Cu-Ag mine.
A gold mine located on 8 patented claims in the center S½ sec. 19, T4S, R29E, about 4½ miles SW of Morenci on private land. Started in 1885 and closed in 1895. Reopened in 1934. Owned by Mrs. Grace Morrison (1934-1956) and W.R. Brown of Arizona (1956).
Mineralization is a vein that strikes N.60ºE. and dips vertically. It occurs in diorite porphyry. Its width ranges up to 10 feet and averages about 3 feet (1 meter). Gangue consists of brecciated, coarse-textured, grayish quartz & sericitized porphyry, cemented by later generation of vuggy quartz. The diorite porphyry wallrock is somewhat sericitized, silicified and iron-stained.
Workings include a 300 foot deep vertical shaft with 470 feet of drifts & some small stopes on the 200 & 300 levels.
References
Wilson, E.D., et al (1934), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 137: 185.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources U file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Lakemen group file.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management Mining District Sheet 841.
USGS Clifton Quadrangle.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10137797, MRDS ID #M800408, MAS ID #0040110130.
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