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Gray Eagle Mine (Oro Belle and Gray Eagle Mine), Tiger District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

‡Ref.: The Resources of Arizona - A Manual of Reliable Information Concerning the Territory, compiled by Patrick Hamilton (1881), Scottsdale, AZ: 50; Wilson, E.D., et al (1934), AZ Bur. Mines Bull. 137: 59; Lindgren, W. (1926), USGS Bull. 782: 44, 174-175.

A Au-Ag--Cu mine located about 2 miles East of the Tiger Mine, on the south slope of the Bradshaw Mountains. It was started before 1900 and closed in 1912. Owned by F.E. Harrington (1900-1912); and, Mrs. Hattie Barnes of New York (1926).

Mineralization is a comprised of 2 veins (Oro Belle vein & Gray Eagle vein). The Oro Belle vein is small and was worked through 8 tunnels, the longest of which is 1,000 feet long. The Gray Eagle vein is near a schist-granite contact and the footwall is in pegmatite. It is 2 to 15 feet wide. The ore carried 1% Cu, 1 oz. Au/T and 2oz. Ag/T. Pegmatite dikes are very abundant in the area.

Workings include a 600 foot deep shaft (Gray Eagle vein); 8 tunnels (Oro Belle vein).





Mineral List:
  • Acanthite
    Ag
     
    2
    S
    Reference: [Lindgren, W. (1926), USGS Bull. 782: 44.]
  • 'Horn Silver'
    Reference: [Lindgren, W. (1926), USGS Bull. 782: 44.]


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