Latitude: 31°21'51"N
Longitude: 110°15'29"W
‡Ref.: Hayes, P.T., and Raup, R.B. (1968) Geologic map of the Huachuca and Mustang Mountains, southeastern Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-509, 1 sheet, scale 1:48,000.
Ludington, S. (1984) Preliminary mineral-resource assessment of the proposed Miller Peak Wilderness, Cochise County, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-0293, 10 p.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.: 156.
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 6 (Table 1).
U.S. Bureau of Mines - Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10048122, MRDS ID #M800148; and, Dep. ID #10258396, MAS ID #0040030755.
A former small surface Au-Ag-Cu-Silica mine located on 3 unpatented claims in the W½ sec. 12, T.24S., R.20E and sec. 7, T24S, R21E, ½ mile NE of Montezuma Park. (Montezuma Pass 7.5 minute topo map). Produced 1968. Owned and operated by Mr. Leo Deslaurier.
Mineralization is a vein deposit 91.44 meters long by 1.22 meters wide (vein varies from two to four feet wide), hosted in the Huachuca Quartz Monzonite and includes oxidized copper minerals.
Workings include an open cut in 1968, 30 feet long and 12 feet deep.
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