Latitude: 33°16'55"N
Longitude: 111°5'25"W
A former underground Cu-Ag-Au mine located in the SW¼ sec. 2, T.2S., R.12E. (Superior 7.5 minute topo map), about 1 mile W of Apache Leap and about 1½ miles SSE of Superior, on National Forest land. Produced 1935-1937.
Mineralization is in either Troy Quartzite, Mescal Limestone, or both, associated with Cretaceous-Paleozoic faulting and intrusive episodes. Mineralization includes secondary copper minerals.
Area structures include WSW faulting series of parallel faults through the area. N-S faulting and the Concentrator Fault are west of the mine and another N-S fault is east of the mine.
References
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report. 92-10: 15 (Table 1).
USGS Mineral Investigations Field Studies map MF-253 (1962).
U.S. Bureau of Mines - Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mining Technology file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10109882, MRDS ID #M899886.
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