Latitude: 32°32'18"N
Longitude: 110°43'7"W
A former underground Au-Ag-Cu mine located on 6 unpatented claims (1940), in sec. 21, T10S, R16E, about 2 miles ESE of Apache Peak, 300 feet W of American Flag Spring, about 2½ miles SE of American Hill, and about 2½ miles W of S from Campo Bonito. Produced 1937-1938. Operated by H.T. Cooper (1937); and by R. L. Oliver (1938).
Mineralization is a vein deposit with veins mainly in NW-trending diorite and diabase dikes. Veins vary from 18 inches to 4 feet in width, strike NW and dip 40-50NE at 1.22 meters wide. The mine is situated N of the Mogul fault, within ¼ mile (upthrown side of the Mogul). his is a small deposit with mineralization probably related to Late Cretaceous-Tertiary intrusive period, most evident S of the Mogul Fault, S of the mine.
Workings include one inclined shaft 110 feet deep, one inclined shaft 45 feet deep, and four shafts varying from 8 feet to 30 feet.
References
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Dead Bull file.
U.S. Bureau of Mines file data, cluster 473.
USGS Campo Bonito Quadrangle map.
USGS Bulletin 1218 (1967).
Yale Peabody GNIS database (NOTE: this database is derived from USGS 1:24,000 topographic map data).
MRDS database Dep. ID #10046288, MRDS ID #M241184; and Dep. ID #10162065, AS ID #0040210289.
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