A group of Ag-Au-Mn-Al-Cu-S-silica-limestone & U claims with quartz, located in the NE¼ sec. 15 & in the SE¼ sec. 16, T.4S., R. 13E. (Grayback 7.5 minute topo map), about 5 air miles SW of Kelvin. Additional names include Comstock group; Bi-Metallic group; Argonaut group; Winona 1-8 unpatented claims, Watts 1-3 unpatented claims, Shorty 1,3,4 unpatented claims, Katherine unpatented claims.
Hobby No. 1-12 and Watts No. 1-3 claims are not adjoining one another. Claims extend into W½ of sec. 15, and into secs. 9-14 and sec. 16. Claims overlap Zelleweger patented claim MS 3314.
Mineralization is a vein deposit that includes secondary copper minerals.
References
US Atomic Energy Commission Preliminary Reconnaissance Report 172-488 (1953): 3.
Granger, H.C. & Raup, R.B. (1962), USGS Bull. 1147A, Reconnaissance Study of Uranium Deposits in Arizona: 38.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 13-14 (Table 1).
USGS Grayback quadrangle map.
USGS Kearny quadrangle map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources ABC group file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Honey Bee group file.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Report 172-480, Gila County Preliminary Reconnaissance Report: 23.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10064570, MRDS ID #TC38980; and Dep. ID #10137284, MAS ID #0040210530.
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