Exile King Mine, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USAi
Regional Level Types | |
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Exile King Mine | Group of Mines (Abandoned) |
Helvetia | Town (Former) |
Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District | Mining District |
Pima County | County |
Arizona | State |
USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
31° 51' 18'' North , 110° 45' 25'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Group of Mines (Abandoned) - last checked 2019
Deposit first discovered:
1899
KΓΆppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Corona de Tucson | 5,675 (2011) | 12.4km |
East Sahuarita | 1,622 (2006) | 18.9km |
Sonoita | 818 (2015) | 21.7km |
Vail | 10,208 (2011) | 21.9km |
Sahuarita | 25,707 (2017) | 21.9km |
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Club | Location | Distance |
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Old Pueblo Lapidary Club | Tucson, Arizona | 44km |
Tucson Gem and Mineral Society | Tucson, Arizona | 44km |
Mindat Locality ID:
36053
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:36053:4
GUID (UUID V4):
aa692274-4c94-41af-93ff-1afa1511f556
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
King in Exile Mine; King-Exile group; Exile and King claims; King-Exile Mine group
A former small Cu-Ag-Zn-Pb-Au-W-Mo-U-Be occurrence/mine located in East-central sec. 24, T18S, R15E, G&SRM, 1ΒΎ miles E of Helvetia, near the crest of the range, at about 5,400 feet of altitude, and about 28 miles SE of Tucson. The north end of the Exile claim overlaps the King claim. Adjoins the Broad Top Mine and connects to it with tunnels. Discovered 1899. Owned at times, or in part, by the Rosemont Copper Co.; Rosemont Development Co.; Lewisohn Copper Corp.; Lewisohn Estate; Daylight Mining Co.; Maffeo; the Allison Steel Co.; Alma Greenhalgh; and, Chilson.
This group includes the patented Malachite and Broad Top claims; and, the Cuprite, Vulture, Bonnie Blue, Exile, Blue Point, Aceola, Amole and King unpatented claims.
Mineralization is copper carbonates, oxides, and sulfides with some minor zinc and lead minerals in irregular lenticular zones, stringers and pockets in bedded, pyrometasomatic ore bodies and in massive fracture fillings in silicated Permian limestone along the contact with Laramide quartz latite porphyry stock. Sparsely disseminated scheelite, pods of molybdenite occur in late quartz stringers and small pockets of pitchblende. Ore control was NE-striking fractures along the contact of limestone and quartz latite porphyry. Alteration was silicification of limestone; secondary chloritization, argillization, sericitization, and tremolitization. Host rock units are the Concha Limestone and the Scherrer Formation.
A 12 foot ledge of altered, sheared, silicified, epidotized, mineralized limestone next to the contact with the intrusive alaskite-granite porphyry (?), dipping steeply to the north is exposed by the southern working (King claim). The ledge contains stringers and pockets of oxidized iron and copper ores.
A similar 10 foot wide ore body is exposed north of the first. This ore body dips to the S in an opposite direction to the dip of the adjoining, un-mineralized crystalline limestone. Here the ore consists of malachite, azurite, cuprite, limonite, and a little pyrite and chalcopyrite in a gangue of altered limestone.
About 200 feet farther north again there is a large open cut (100 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet deep) that exposed a 10 foot wide bed of highly altered, very siliceous epidotized and mineralized limestone. The ore consists principally of limonite, malachite, azurite, and cuprite scattered throughout the bed. On some of the joints occurs later quartz which carries pyrite and chalcopyrite.
Local structures include thrust and normal faulting, fracture zones, homoclinal. Regional trends include tilting and broad open folds in the south and extensive faulting in the north.
Workings include surface and underground openings including several short tunnels, the longest about 150 feet in length, with winzes and stopes and open cut operations.
Production was over 55,000 tons of ore averaging about 6% Cu, 1 ounce Ag/ton, and minor Zn and Pb were produced between the early 1900's and 1959.
Select Mineral List Type
Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
15 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
β Aurichalcite Formula: (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6 |
β Azurite Formula: Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
β Bornite Formula: Cu5FeS4 |
β Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 |
β 'Chlorite Group' |
β Cuprite Formula: Cu2O |
β Diopside Formula: CaMgSi2O6 |
β Epidote Formula: (CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
β 'Garnet Group' Formula: X3Z2(SiO4)3 |
β 'Limonite' |
β Malachite Formula: Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
β Molybdenite Formula: MoS2 |
β Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
β Scheelite Formula: Ca(WO4) |
β Smithsonite Formula: ZnCO3 |
β Sphalerite Formula: ZnS |
β Tremolite Formula: ◻Ca2Mg5(Si8O22)(OH)2 |
β Uraninite Formula: UO2 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
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β | Bornite | 2.BA.15 | Cu5FeS4 |
β | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
β | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
β | Molybdenite | 2.EA.30 | MoS2 |
β | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
β | Cuprite | 4.AA.10 | Cu2O |
β | Uraninite | 4.DL.05 | UO2 |
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
β | Smithsonite | 5.AB.05 | ZnCO3 |
β | Azurite | 5.BA.05 | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
β | Malachite | 5.BA.10 | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
β | Aurichalcite | 5.BA.15 | (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6 |
Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
β | Scheelite | 7.GA.05 | Ca(WO4) |
Group 9 - Silicates | |||
β | Epidote | 9.BG.05a | (CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
β | Diopside | 9.DA.15 | CaMgSi2O6 |
β | Tremolite | 9.DE.10 | β»Ca2Mg5(Si8O22)(OH)2 |
Unclassified | |||
β | 'Limonite' | - | |
β | 'Chlorite Group' | - | |
β | 'Garnet Group' | - | X3Z2(SiO4)3 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
H | Hydrogen | |
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H | β Aurichalcite | (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6 |
H | β Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
H | β Epidote | (CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
H | β Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
H | β Tremolite | ◻Ca2Mg5(Si8O22)(OH)2 |
C | Carbon | |
C | β Aurichalcite | (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6 |
C | β Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
C | β Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
C | β Smithsonite | ZnCO3 |
O | Oxygen | |
O | β Aurichalcite | (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6 |
O | β Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
O | β Cuprite | Cu2O |
O | β Diopside | CaMgSi2O6 |
O | β Epidote | (CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
O | β Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
O | β Scheelite | Ca(WO4) |
O | β Smithsonite | ZnCO3 |
O | β Tremolite | ◻Ca2Mg5(Si8O22)(OH)2 |
O | β Uraninite | UO2 |
O | β Garnet Group | X3Z2(SiO4)3 |
Mg | Magnesium | |
Mg | β Diopside | CaMgSi2O6 |
Mg | β Tremolite | ◻Ca2Mg5(Si8O22)(OH)2 |
Al | Aluminium | |
Al | β Epidote | (CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
Si | Silicon | |
Si | β Diopside | CaMgSi2O6 |
Si | β Epidote | (CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
Si | β Tremolite | ◻Ca2Mg5(Si8O22)(OH)2 |
Si | β Garnet Group | X3Z2(SiO4)3 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | β Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
S | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
S | β Molybdenite | MoS2 |
S | β Pyrite | FeS2 |
S | β Sphalerite | ZnS |
Ca | Calcium | |
Ca | β Diopside | CaMgSi2O6 |
Ca | β Epidote | (CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
Ca | β Scheelite | Ca(WO4) |
Ca | β Tremolite | ◻Ca2Mg5(Si8O22)(OH)2 |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | β Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
Fe | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
Fe | β Epidote | (CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
Fe | β Pyrite | FeS2 |
Cu | Copper | |
Cu | β Aurichalcite | (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6 |
Cu | β Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
Cu | β Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
Cu | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
Cu | β Cuprite | Cu2O |
Cu | β Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
Zn | Zinc | |
Zn | β Aurichalcite | (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6 |
Zn | β Smithsonite | ZnCO3 |
Zn | β Sphalerite | ZnS |
Mo | Molybdenum | |
Mo | β Molybdenite | MoS2 |
W | Tungsten | |
W | β Scheelite | Ca(WO4) |
U | Uranium | |
U | β Uraninite | UO2 |
Other Databases
Link to USGS MRDS: | 10039414 |
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Exile King Mine, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA