Latitude: 32°58'40"N
Longitude: 110°20'26"W
A small former underground Pb-Au-Cu-Zn-Ag + trace Mo mine located in the center S½ sec. 19, T5S, R20E, SW of the Head Center Mine and 3 km NNE of Aravaipa, on land of mixed status. Owned and operated by Messrs. James Quinn and Thomas Finnegan. Operated by the Balboa Mining and Development Co. of Colorado (1964).
Mineralization is a tabular orebody. Ore is fissure fillings in the Head Center fault between limestone and volcanics hosted in Escabrosa limestone and Horse Mountain silicic lava and tuff.
Produced several carloads of lead ore in 1948.
Mineral List
11 entries listed. 10 valid minerals.
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References
Ross, C.P. (1925a), Geology and ore deposits of the Aravaipa and Stanley mining districts, Graham County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 763.
Elsing and Heineman (1936) Arizona Metal Production. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 140: 93.
Denton, T.C. (1947), Aravaipa lead-zinc deposits, Graham County, Arizona, U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 4007: 4.
Wilson, E.D., et al (1950), Arizona zinc and lead deposits, part I, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 156: 58-59, 63.
Simons, F.S. (1964), Geology of the Klondyke quadrangle, Graham and Pinal Counties, Arizona, USGS PP 461: 141.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management Mining Claims Lead File #86176 (Jul, 1980).
USGS Cobre Grande Mountain Quadrangle map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Head Center file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources U file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources FAR Mining Enterprises file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Grand Reef file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Aravaipa District Geology file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Aravaipa District Lead-Zinc Deposits file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Brushy Group file.
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 425.
Yale Peabody GNIS database (NOTE: this database is derived from USGS 1:24,000 topographic map data).
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10186675, MAS ID #0040090318.
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