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Merry Widow Mine (Merry Widow prospect), Toluachi group of claims (Toluachi group), Bond Canyon, Salero area, Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 31°37'36"N
Longitude: 110°52'27"W
‡Ref.: Schrader, F.C. & J.M. Hill (1915), Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, USGS Bull. 582: 207.

USGS Mt Wrightson Quadrangle topo map.

Anaconda Geology Document collection, Laramie, WY.

Arizona Bureau of Mines card file Santa Cruz County.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10186777, MAS ID #0040230282.

A former underground Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag mine located in the SE¼SE¼ sec. 2, T21S, R14E, in Bond Canyon at an elevation of 4,970 feet, on National Forest land. Owned by the Bond Mining Trust (1962).

Located on the Merry Widow-Badger vein, which dips steeply to the south in andesite breccia and is opened by a 100 foot deep shaft, from the bottom of which a 45 foot drift has been run to the west, with a 20 foot winze sunk at the face.

The vein contains ore, said to average 8% Pb and 72 oz. Ag/T.

Mineral List

Calcite
Chalcopyrite
Galena
Sphalerite


4 entries listed. 4 valid minerals.

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