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A former large-volume underground Cu-Pb-Zn-Mn-Au-Ag (Bi-Cd-In-Sn) mine located in the center of sec. 15, T.23S., R.24E. (Bisbee 7.5 minute topo map). The mine was just SW of the junction of US highway 80 and highway 92, on private land. One of the major mines in the district. Owned at times, or in part, by the Junction Development Co., Junction, Superior & Duluth Mining Co., Superior & Pittsburg Mining Co., Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. and the Phelps Dodge Corp.
Mineralization is a replacement deposit with largely oxidized copper, with minor lead-zinc, ores in large irregular replacement bodies in relatively unaltered Mississippian Escabrosa Limestone in a wide zone of strong fracturing, faulting, and numerous porphyry dike and sill intrusions. Psilomelane found along fissure zone in Devonian Martin Limestone and some alabandite with the lead-zinc ores. An exceptional body of manganese ore found on the 1300 level about 800 feet NW of the briggs shaft, in the Martin Limestone along a North-South fissure. It appeared to be from 12 to 15 feet thick & at least 40 feet long from North to South & extended 75 or 100 feet vertically above the level. The ore bodies are near dikes and sills, and ore control was faulting and associated brecciation. Ore concentration was bornite replacing pyrite. Alteration is gossan with Mn and Fe oxides induced by hydrothermal metamorphism. An associated rock unit is the Savramento Hill Stock.
Local structures include pre-mineralization faulting and tilting. The mainfault directions are N10W to N40E and S30W to N50W.
Workings include a shaft(s) to a depth of 396.24 meters. At this time the shaft may be covered by tailings. One of the major mines of the district producing several hundred thousand tons of copper ore and large amounts of lead-zinc ore after 1939. Production was included under the Calumet and Arizona Mine in ABGMT-USBM files.
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