Latitude: 33°4'50"N
Longitude: 110°46'17"W
A former surface and underground Au-Mo-Pb-Cu-W-Zn-V mine located on 10 unpatented claims in the SW¼ sec. 13, T4S, R15E, 2 miles NW of Christmas, on federal land. Owned by Mr. S.O. Stewart (1925).
Mineralization is ore that occurs on the south side of a NNW-trending fault, hosted in Escabrosa Limestone and the Toronado Limestone. The ore zone is 804.65 meters long, 0.91 meters wide, strikes E-W and dips vertically. Native gold occurs in thin seams with Fe & Mn oxides. Copper and arsenic veins and replacement bodies adjacent to the gold. An associated rock unit is rhyodacite.
Workings include adits & drifts; several pits open cut about 25 feet long with a drift from one end extending 20 feet to the east and a winze 12 feet deep at the end of the drift. Production was about $70,000 worth of gold (period values), reportedly produced from one of the main workings.
References
Allen, M.A. & G.M. Butler (1921c), Vanadium, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 115.
Ross, Clyde P. (1925a) Ore deposits of the Saddle Mountain and Banner Mining Districts, Arizona. USGS Bull. 771: 69.
Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 73, 80.
Banks and Krieger (1977) USGS Map GQ-1391.
Anthony et al (1977) Mineralogy of Arizona, University of Arizona Press.
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 410, 425.
USGS Hayden Quadrangle map.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10026844, MRDS ID #M000499; and Dep. ID #10258440, MAS ID #0040070602.
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