Blue Knob Mine (Blue Knob No. 30; 31; 32 prospects; Blue Knob M.S. #4551; Fred Harvey claim; Harvey Copper claim; Jenkins Clifton & Fisher claim), Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 33°36'50"N
Longitude: 112°50'53"W
‡Ref.: Keith, S.B., D.E. Gest, Ed DeWitt, N.W. Toll & B.A. Everson (1983), Metallic mineral districts and production in Arizona: Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology Bull. 194, 58 pp.
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 9 (Table 1).
U.S. Bureauof Land Management District sheet 307.
USGS 15 minute Belmont Mountains topo. map.
Bureau of Land Management Mining District sheet.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources (ADMR) Fred Harvey Mine file.
MRDS database Dep. ID files #10009473 & 10137341.
A Cu-PGE(Pt)-Ag-Au mine / prospects with underground workings. Located in the SW¼ sec. 11, T.3N., R.6W. (Belmont Mountains 15 minute topo map).
Mineralization includes oxidized copper minerals. The host rock is the Idaho Springs formation, gneiss, schist.
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