Reagan claims (Regan/Reagan Camp prospects; Lee Reagan property; Lee Reagan prospects; Kullman-McCool group), Keystone Gulch, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner District, Dripping Spring Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA

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A former surface and underground Pb-Cu-Ag-Mo-Au-V claims group/mine that extend from Reagan Camp on the west up Keystone Gulch and Little Chocolate Canyon to the Schneider Group on the east, about 1¾ miles SW of Chilito ghost town. They are bounded on the north by the Seventy-Nine Lead-Copper Co. claims (79 Mine) and approximately on the south by Chocolate Canyon. Early history is not documented. Mr. Lee Reagan acquired them about 1923 and had an active interest in them until circa 1950.

Mineralization is ore in streaks and pockets hosted in the Naco Limestone. Naco limestone and a large plug of basalt porphyry crop out over most of the claims. The best mineral showing is along the north contact of the basalt porphyry with Naco limestone. This contact, where exposed in Keystone Gulch, dips steeply north. The thin-bedded Naco Limestone shows mineraliztion up-dip from the porphyry in a few favorable places.

East of the Keystone fault in Little Chocolate Canyon, prospecting in diabase has disclosed several small veins containing lead and copper minerals.

Workings on the south side of Keystone Gulch, ½ mile east of Reagan Camp, several adits and cross-cuts have been driven at different elevations.

Production has been small and very irregular from several scattered prospects and small workings. The principal workings are in Keystone Gulch.

Mineral List

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Anglesite Beudantite Cerussite Chalcophanite Copper

Descloizite Enstatite Ferro-Actinolite Galena Gypsum

Hemimorphite Ktenasite Mimetite Quartz Serpierite

Vanadinite Wulfenite

21 entries listed. 17 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region

USA Arizona Gila Co. Dripping Spring Mts Banner District Hayden area Chilito Keystone Gulch Reagan claims (Regan/Reagan Camp prospects; Lee Reagan property; Lee Reagan prospects; Kullman-McCool group) Finch Mine (Barking Spider Mine) D.H. Claims (DH claim)

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