Sunnyside & Volcano Mines (Sunnyside Mine group; Volcano-Sunnyside Mine; Sunnyside Mine), Alum Gulch, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
31° 27' 4'' North , 110° 44' 46'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Group of Mines
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Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Patagonia | 890 (2017) | 9.9km |
Kino Springs | 136 (2011) | 11.5km |
Beyerville | 177 (2011) | 14.2km |
Francisco Miguel CΓ‘rdenas Valdez (MascareΓ±as) | 541 (2014) | 20.1km |
Nogales | 20,252 (2017) | 21.7km |
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Huachuca Mineral and Gem Club | Sierra Vista, Arizona | 43km |
Mindat Locality ID:
33912
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:33912:7
GUID (UUID V4):
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A former small surface and underground Cu-Ag-Pb-Zn-Au-As mine on a group of 8 unpatented claims (Sunnyside, Volcano, Climax, Horseshoe, Farrell, Union Leader, Lucky Strike, and Old Man) located in east-central (SWΒΌSEΒΌ) sec. 6, and in the center EΒ½NEΒΌ sec. 7, T.23S., R.16E. (protracted) (Lochiel 15 minute topo map), 1ΒΌ miles SW of the January Mine and 2Β½ miles west of Harshaw, on the upper part of Alum Gulch, just N of the Thunder and Standard Mine group, at an elevation of about 5,800 feet, on National Forest land. Located in 1897 by R. Farrell. Produced 1897-1954. Owned/operated at times, or in part, by Farrell (1897- ); L.D. Ricketts of Cananea (early 1912- ); Lenon & Vasquez; the Santa Cruz Copper Co.; Lee Farrell and A. Olander; J.W. Wingfield; Cananea Copper Co.; and, Strong & Harris. Diamond Drilling was under contract to the Metler Brothers Drilling Co. The Volcano Mine is the principal mine of the group.
The deposits are contained mainly in a NW-trending mineralized shear zone about 200 feet (60.9 meters) wide in granite porphyry, which trends N.50ΒΊW. across the claims, and dips 70SW. This zone consists of belts of sheared and silicified country rock containing copper carbonates and minor tenorite and sulfides along a fault cutting the Laramide rhyolite conglomerate and porphyry. Monzonite (?) porphyry intrudes Mt. Wrightson Formation and is locally much al tered to quartz, sericite, kaolinite, alunite, pyrite and tourmaline. Minor gold occurs in malachite ore. A small pocket of black oxidized copper ore was encountered at a depth of 80 feet. Sulfide ores might exist below the oxidation zone, but mining has not penetrated to that depth.
To a depth of 40 feet the mineralized zone is composed largely of quartz carrying considerable copper carbonates, but below this depth the shaft passes through soft, earthy material containing a few small masses of siliceous rock and a larger amount of iron oxide than is seen at the surface. In all, surface ozidation is over 80 feet in depth. An associated rock unit is the Mt. Wrightson Formation.
Tectonic elements include the Thunder Mine Fault Block.
Workings are several shallow shafts to about 90 feet (36.5 meters) of depth (the inclined Volcano shaft [about 30 feet, dipping to the SW] and the Sunnyside shaft [90 feet]), and open cuts. Various stopes and drifts; shallow open cuts. The Volcano claim workings also include a 50-foot deep vertical shaft, a 550 foot long adit with crosscuts totaling 350 feet in length, a 77 foot raise from the adit up to the vertical shaft bottom. Diamond drilling, conducted on the property in 1954, reached a depth of 608 feet on the incline. Worked in the late 1890's and sporadically through 1953. Some 1,600 tons of picked ore averaged about 8% Cu, 1.6 oz. Ag/T, and minor Pb, Zn, and Au.
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Detailed Mineral List:
β Alunite Formula: KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6 |
β Andalusite Formula: Al2(SiO4)O |
β 'Biotite' Formula: K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 |
β Chalcocite Formula: Cu2S Description: As an enrichment blanket. |
β Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 |
β Chenevixite Formula: Cu2Fe3+2(AsO4)2(OH)4 Description: 1.5 cm masses in goethite & pseudomorphs after cuprite. |
β Cuprite Formula: Cu2O |
β Diaspore Formula: AlO(OH) |
β Enargite Formula: Cu3AsS4 Description: Rare vein mineral with pyrite under a chalcocite enrichment blanket. |
β Galena Formula: PbS |
β Goethite Formula: Ξ±-Fe3+O(OH) |
β Gold Formula: Au Description: A little native gold in malachite ore. |
β Hematite Formula: Fe2O3 |
β Kaolinite Formula: Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
β 'Limonite' |
β Magnetite Formula: Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
β Malachite Formula: Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 Description: Well crystallized, individuals to 1/8 inch diameter; fibrous rosettte forms prevalent in more massive parts of the ore. |
β Muscovite Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
β Muscovite var. Illite Formula: K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2 |
β Muscovite var. Sericite Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
β Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
β Pyrophyllite Formula: Al2Si4O10(OH)2 |
β 'Smectite Group' Formula: A0.3D2-3[T4O10]Z2 · nH2O |
β Sphalerite Formula: ZnS |
β 'Tennantite Subgroup' Formula: Cu6(Cu4C2+2)As4S12S |
β Tenorite Formula: CuO |
β 'Tourmaline' Formula: AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z |
β Zunyite Formula: Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 1 - Elements | |||
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β | Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
β | Chalcocite | 2.BA.05 | Cu2S |
β | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
β | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
β | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
β | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
β | 'Tennantite Subgroup' | 2.GB.05 | Cu6(Cu4C2+2)As4S12S |
β | Enargite | 2.KA.05 | Cu3AsS4 |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
β | Goethite | 4.00. | Ξ±-Fe3+O(OH) |
β | Cuprite | 4.AA.10 | Cu2O |
β | Tenorite | 4.AB.10 | CuO |
β | Magnetite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
β | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
β | Diaspore | 4.FD.10 | AlO(OH) |
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
β | Malachite | 5.BA.10 | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
β | Alunite | 7.BC.10 | KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6 |
Group 8 - Phosphates, Arsenates and Vanadates | |||
β | Chenevixite | 8.DD.05 | Cu2Fe3+2(AsO4)2(OH)4 |
Group 9 - Silicates | |||
β | Andalusite | 9.AF.10 | Al2(SiO4)O |
β | Zunyite | 9.BJ.55 | Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl |
β | Pyrophyllite | 9.EC.10 | Al2Si4O10(OH)2 |
β | Muscovite var. Illite | 9.EC.15 | K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2 |
β | 9.EC.15 | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 | |
β | var. Sericite | 9.EC.15 | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
β | Kaolinite | 9.ED.05 | Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
Unclassified | |||
β | 'Tourmaline' | - | AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z |
β | 'Limonite' | - | |
β | 'Biotite' | - | K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 |
β | 'Smectite Group' | - | A0.3D2-3[T4O10]Z2 Β· nH2O |
List of minerals for each chemical element
H | Hydrogen | |
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H | β Alunite | KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6 |
H | β Biotite | K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 |
H | β Chenevixite | Cu2Fe23+(AsO4)2(OH)4 |
H | β Diaspore | AlO(OH) |
H | β Goethite | Ξ±-Fe3+O(OH) |
H | β Muscovite var. Illite | K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2 |
H | β Kaolinite | Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
H | β Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
H | β Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
H | β Pyrophyllite | Al2Si4O10(OH)2 |
H | β Zunyite | Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl |
H | β Muscovite var. Sericite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
H | β Smectite Group | A0.3D2-3[T4O10]Z2 · nH2O |
B | Boron | |
B | β Tourmaline | AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z |
C | Carbon | |
C | β Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
O | Oxygen | |
O | β Alunite | KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6 |
O | β Andalusite | Al2(SiO4)O |
O | β Biotite | K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 |
O | β Chenevixite | Cu2Fe23+(AsO4)2(OH)4 |
O | β Cuprite | Cu2O |
O | β Diaspore | AlO(OH) |
O | β Goethite | Ξ±-Fe3+O(OH) |
O | β Hematite | Fe2O3 |
O | β Muscovite var. Illite | K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2 |
O | β Kaolinite | Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
O | β Magnetite | Fe2+Fe23+O4 |
O | β Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
O | β Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
O | β Pyrophyllite | Al2Si4O10(OH)2 |
O | β Tenorite | CuO |
O | β Tourmaline | AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z |
O | β Zunyite | Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl |
O | β Muscovite var. Sericite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
O | β Smectite Group | A0.3D2-3[T4O10]Z2 · nH2O |
F | Fluorine | |
F | β Biotite | K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 |
F | β Zunyite | Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl |
Mg | Magnesium | |
Mg | β Biotite | K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 |
Al | Aluminium | |
Al | β Alunite | KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6 |
Al | β Andalusite | Al2(SiO4)O |
Al | β Biotite | K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 |
Al | β Diaspore | AlO(OH) |
Al | β Muscovite var. Illite | K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2 |
Al | β Kaolinite | Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
Al | β Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
Al | β Pyrophyllite | Al2Si4O10(OH)2 |
Al | β Zunyite | Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl |
Al | β Muscovite var. Sericite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
Si | Silicon | |
Si | β Andalusite | Al2(SiO4)O |
Si | β Biotite | K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 |
Si | β Muscovite var. Illite | K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2 |
Si | β Kaolinite | Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
Si | β Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
Si | β Pyrophyllite | Al2Si4O10(OH)2 |
Si | β Zunyite | Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl |
Si | β Muscovite var. Sericite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | β Alunite | KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6 |
S | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
S | β Chalcocite | Cu2S |
S | β Enargite | Cu3AsS4 |
S | β Galena | PbS |
S | β Pyrite | FeS2 |
S | β Sphalerite | ZnS |
S | β Tennantite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)As4S12S |
Cl | Chlorine | |
Cl | β Zunyite | Al13Si5O20(OH,F)18Cl |
K | Potassium | |
K | β Alunite | KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6 |
K | β Biotite | K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 |
K | β Muscovite var. Illite | K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2 |
K | β Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
K | β Muscovite var. Sericite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
Ti | Titanium | |
Ti | β Biotite | K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | β Biotite | K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 |
Fe | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
Fe | β Chenevixite | Cu2Fe23+(AsO4)2(OH)4 |
Fe | β Goethite | Ξ±-Fe3+O(OH) |
Fe | β Hematite | Fe2O3 |
Fe | β Magnetite | Fe2+Fe23+O4 |
Fe | β Pyrite | FeS2 |
Cu | Copper | |
Cu | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
Cu | β Chalcocite | Cu2S |
Cu | β Chenevixite | Cu2Fe23+(AsO4)2(OH)4 |
Cu | β Cuprite | Cu2O |
Cu | β Enargite | Cu3AsS4 |
Cu | β Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
Cu | β Tennantite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)As4S12S |
Cu | β Tenorite | CuO |
Zn | Zinc | |
Zn | β Sphalerite | ZnS |
As | Arsenic | |
As | β Chenevixite | Cu2Fe23+(AsO4)2(OH)4 |
As | β Enargite | Cu3AsS4 |
As | β Tennantite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)As4S12S |
Au | Gold | |
Au | β Gold | Au |
Pb | Lead | |
Pb | β Galena | PbS |
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Localities in this Region
- Arizona
- Santa Cruz County
- Patagonia Mountains
- Harshaw Mining District
- Alum Gulch
- Sunnyside & Volcano Mines (Sunnyside Mine group; Volcano-Sunnyside Mine; Sunnyside Mine)
- Alum Gulch
- Harshaw Mining District
- Patagonia Mountains
- Santa Cruz County
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References
Singer, Donald A., Berger, Vladimir Iosifovich, Moring, Barry C. (2005) Porphyry copper deposits of the world: database, map, and grade and tonnage models. Open-File Report 2005-1060. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20051060