Canadian Mines (Asbestos King Mine), Mule Hoof Bend (Oxbow Bend), Salt River, Salt River District, San Carlos Indian Reservation, Gila Co., Arizona, USA

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A former underground asbestos mine located about ¾ mile W of Mule Hoof Bend (Oxbow Bend), about 43 road miles N of Globe, on National Forest land. Discovered 1916. Produced 1920-1953. Owned by the Jaquays Mining Co. (1982).

Mineralization is a linear and tabular ore body(ies) hosted in Mescal Limestone. The ore zone is 365.76 meters long, with a depth-to-bottom of 106.68 meters and a thickness of 0.05 meters, and 0 dip. Ore control was a contact zone and fracturing. Ore concentration was contact metamorphism. An associated rock unit is diabase.

Workings include several adits, drifts, and stopes totalling 91.44 meters long. Room and pillar mining was practiced. Past production occurred.

Assay data: Asbestos fiber ½ to 3 inches, soft, excellent tensile strength.

References

Joseph, P.E. (1915-16) Asbestos. Arizona State Bureau of Mines Bull. No. 8: 3-8.

Diller, J.S. (1920) Asbestos, in: Mineral Resources of the United States 1917. USGS: 197-200.

Allen, M.A. & G.M. Butler (1921), Asbestos, University of Arizona Bull. 113: 18-19.

Diller, J.S. (1922) Asbestos, in: Mineral Resources of the United States 1919. USGS: 299, 302.

Melhase, J. (1925) Asbestos Deposits of Arizona: Mining Journal-Press: 120(21): 805-810.

Trischka, C. (1927) Asbestos and the Arizona Industry. Engineering and Mining Journal: 124(9): 337-340.

Wilson, E.D. (1928) Asbestos Deposits of Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 126: 28-49.

Bowles, O. (1937) Asbestos, U.S. Bureau of Mines Bull. 403: 20-21, 59-60.

Wilson, E.D. (1944), Arizona nonmetallics: A summary of past production and present operations, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 152: 8-10.

Stewart, L.A. & Haury, P.S. (1947) Arizona Asbestos Deposits, Gila County, Arizona. U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 4100: 4-16.

Wilson, E.D. & G.H. Roseveare (1949), Arizona Nonmetallics, A Summary of Past Production and Present Operations, 2nd. Edition (revised), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 155: 8-10.

Stewart, L.A. (1952a) Engineeering Report on the Canadian ine, DMEA 2338, 19 pp. + map (unpublished).

Stewart, L.A. (1952b) Report of Examination of the Canadian Mine, DMEA 2338, 4 pp. (unpublished).

U.S. Bureau of Mines (1952) 1950 Materials Survey, Asbestos: Compiled for the National Security Resources Board, parts II-1 - II-3, and parts V-1 - V-3.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Directory of Arizona Nonmetallic Properties 1953: 2.

Shride, A.F. (1954) Completion Geology Report on Canadian Mine: DMEA 2338, 8 pp. + map (unpublished).

Stewart, L.A. (1955), Chrysotile-Asbestos Deposits of Arizona, U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7706: 22.

Jaquays, D.W. and Gerhardt, A.W. (1957) How Low-Iron Chrysotile Asbestos is Mined and Milled in Central Arizona. Mining World: 19(8): 54-58.

Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.

Sawyer, M.B., Gurmendi, A.C., Daley, M.R., and Howell, S.B. (1992) Principal Deposits of Strategic and Critical Minerals in Arizona, U.S. Bureau of Mines Special Publication, 334 pp.

Yale Peabody GNIS database (NOTE: this database is derived from USGS 1:24,000 topographic map data).

MRDS database Dep. ID #10027089, MRDS ID #M001975; and Dep. ID #10283035, MAS ID #0040070073.

Mineral List

Calcite Chrysotile

Magnetite Quartz var: Chert

'Serpentine Group' Wollastonite

6 entries listed. 4 valid minerals.