Latitude: 32°33'7"N
Longitude: 110°47'54"W
A former surface and underground Pb-Ag-Cu-Zn-Au-Mn-Mo-W mine located in sec. 22, T10S, R15E, about 3¾ miles SSW of Oracle and 2½ miles W of Apache Peak, on both sides of Canada Del Oro, on National Forest land. 26 claims in the area include the Copper Rose, Lead Reef, and Stove Lid Claims. Produced during the period 1947-1967. Owner-Operator Burney, Robert 1973. Additional names which apply to this locality: Canada del Oro; St. Anthony shaft; Copper Rose Mine.
Mineralization is hosted in the Apache Group, Mescal Limestone and Dripping Springs Quartzite. Ore control was near NW-trending dikes, along intersections of NE and NW-trending fractures. Some ore was found along a Mescal Limestone-Dripping Springs Quartzite contact. Oxidation was not deep with surviving sulphides. The deposit is at least one 6 foot thick vein.
No information specific to separate tunnels available other than for the Birthday.
Local structures include NW-trending faults and dikes; NE-trending faults with minor displacement. Regional features include the N- to NW-trending Mogul fault, which is 1 mile N with Precambrian Oracle Granite to the N; 25 M.Y. Samaniego Granite intrudes Precambrian rocks 1 mile S of these mines.
Workings include the Copper Rose, Birthday, Lead Reef and Stove Lid tunnels. One 84 foot deep inclined shaft, from the 64 foot level an 80 foot drift W (Birthday); also a 62 foot shaft with 30 degree incline (1966). Older tunnels, 1939, were 50, 25, and 10 feet long. Production was recorded under the Copper Rose, Birthday, Lead Reef, and Stove Lid on ABGMT-USBM file data.
References
Wallace, R.M. (1955) Structure of the Northern End of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona Ph.D. thesis, University of Arizona, 45 pp.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Birthday Mine file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Burney Mill file.
U.S. Bureau of Mines file data.
USGS Oracle 15 minute Quadrangle map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources U file.
Yale Peabody GNIS database (NOTE: this database is derived from USGS 1:24,000 topographic map data).
MRDS database Dep. ID #10048308, MRDS ID #M899872; and Dep. ID #10210721, MAS ID #0040210208; and Dep. ID #10283695, MAS ID #0040210798.
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