Latitude: 33°6'22"N
Longitude: 114°35'5"W
‡Ref.: Blake, William P. (1881a), Vanadinite in Arizona, American Journal of Science: 22: 235.
Washington (1885): 52.
Dana, E.S. (1892) System of Mineralogy, 6th. Edition, New York: 1094.
Wilson, E.D. (1933), Geology and Mineral deposits of southern Yuma County, Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 134: 63.
Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 73.
Parker, F.Z. (1966) The Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Silver District Trigo Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona. Masters Thesis, San Diego State College: 131-132.
Keith, Stanton B. (1978) State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 192, Index of Mining Properties in Yuma County, Arizona: 177 (Table 4).
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MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027199, MRDS ID #M002448; and, Dep. ID #10113345, MAS D #0040120388.
A former underground Pb-Zn-Ag-Baryte-Fluorspar-Sr-Fe-Mo-V mine located in the center of sec. 1, T.4S., R.23W. (protracted), 1 mile NE of the Red Cloud Mine, on BLM-administered land. Started in the 1880's. Owned/operated at times, or in part, by Blake; Norton, Crawford & Lambie; Neal Mining Co., and the New Jersey Zinc Co. Surveyed for patent in 1880 for Norton, Crawford, and Lambie. Owned by Mrs Rose Livingston in 1933.
Mineralization is nuggets of argentiferous lead carbonate, sulfate, and oxide intermingled with zinc carbonate and reportedly some galena, argentite, and chlorargyrite, with vanadinite and wulfenite in vugs, in a gangue of calcite and brecciated and silicified wall rock cemented with calcite, barite, celestine, quartz, fluorite, and irregular masses of iron oxide. Irregular fissure filling in a curved fault zone traceable for a mile southward. It cuts metamorphic Mesozoic schist intruded by Laramide granodiorite and capped by Tertiary dacite flows and pyroclastics and strikes NNW and dips 30ºSW. The ore zone is 0.6 meters wide.
The Princess vein occurs within this fault zone, near the south end of the claim and a short distance north of an offset in the fault. The hanging wall of the oreshoot is a carbonate vein about 2 feet thick, and the footwall is brecciated, silicified andesite about 4 feet thick, cemented with carbonate and barite. The ore oreshoot consists mainly of manganese-stained breccia cemented by carbonates, fine-grained vitreous quartz and fluorite, together with irregular masses of hematite. The oreshoot is 1½ to 2 feet (.5 to .6 meters) wide in places but branched into seams only 1 or 2 inches (2.5 to 5 cm)_ thick.
Workings include an inclined shaft about 100 feet (30.48 meters) deep & open stopes to 50 feet deep. Worked during the 1880's. Produced substantial, but unrecorded, amounts of silver ore.
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