Ajax Mine (Doran & Gallagher Mine), California Mining District (Chiricahua Mining District), Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
32° 0' 47'' North , 109° 12' 42'' West
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Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Rodeo | 101 (2015) | 26.0km |
San Simon | 165 (2011) | 28.4km |
Cotton City | 388 (2011) | 32.4km |
Animas | 237 (2011) | 38.8km |
Bowie | 449 (2011) | 43.4km |
Mindat Locality ID:
32157
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:32157:1
GUID (UUID V4):
d80eb04b-55e2-4c14-8e4a-06325b63d3c2
A former small surface and underground Cu-Pb-Ag-Zn-Au occurrence/mine owned at times by the Ajax Metal Mining Co. and the Arizona Consolidated Metal Producers Corp. Located in North-central sec. 30, T16S, R31E, on private land (11 patented claims). Owned by A.F. Noland and operated by Ajax Metal Mining Co.; Arizona Consolidated Metal Producers Corp.; and Doran and Gallagher.
Mineralization is base metal sulfides and their oxidation products in irregular veins and disseminations in late Cretaceous to Tertiary conglomerates derived from volcanic rocks and cut by Tertiary silicic porphyry dikes. Host rock unit is the Nipper Formation.
Workings include a shaft and adit. About 100 tons of ore were produced intermittently from 1909 to 1918.
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Other Databases
Link to USGS MRDS: | 10026999 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Mexico
- Sierra Madre OccidentalMountain Range
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Basin and Range BasinsBasin
- Mazatzal DomainDomain
- Pedregosa BasinBasin
USA
- Arizona
- Cochise County
- Chiricahua MountainsMountain Range
- California Mining District (Chiricahua Mining District)Mining District
- Chiricahua MountainsMountain Range
- Cochise County
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