Latitude: 31°42'7"N
Longitude: 110°53'44"W
‡Ref.: Schrader, F.C. & J.M. Hill (1915), Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, USGS Bull. 582: 184.
USGS Mt Wrightson Quadrangle topo map.
Arizona Bureau of Mines card file Santa Cruz County.
U.S. Bureau of Mines field notes, CU49.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10234483, MRDS ID #M241041, MAS ID #0040230220.
A former underground Pb-Zn-Cu mine located in the NW¼SW¼SE¼ sec. 10, T20S, R14E, in Rattlesnake Canyon, a north branch of Agua Caliente Canyon, at an elevation of 6,300 feet, on National Forest land. Owned by A.E. Jenkins (1915).
This claim is on a diorite and granite contact zone containing considerable epidote with small pockets of quartz containing sulphides. A fault dipping 80º SSW. in the coarse pink country rock granite is associated with a foot of crushed silicified granite containing much white mica and a little disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite, and chalcocite.
Workings include a 130 foot long tunnel.
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