Arizona Klondyke Mine, Arizona and Klondyke groups, Bean Canyon, Dos Cabezas Mining District (Two Heads Mining District), Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USAi
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32° 11' 48'' North , 109° 34' 59'' West
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| Club | Location | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Sunsites Gem and Mineral Club | Pearce, Arizona | 39km |
A former small surface and underground Au-Ag-Mn mine located in the SE ¼ sec. 22, T.14S., R.27E, approximately 3 miles NE of Dos Cabezas, N end of Bean Canyon, on private land. Owned and operated by Mr. Hyde Bean (1973- ).
Mineralization consists of spotty gold and minor silver values associated with irregular quartz veins along fault fissures cutting Cretaceous schistose rocks and with minor manganese oxide in limy beds. The host rock unit is the Bisbee Group, including limestone and schistose rocks.
Local structures include an E-W fault south of the mine juxtaposes Precambrian quartz monzonite to the south with the Cretaceous Bisbee Group.
Workings include a shaft and surface workings. A few hundred tons of ore were produced from 1884 to 1933.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsGallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Pyrolusite | 4.DB.05 | Mn4+O2 |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Wad' | - | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Pyrolusite | Mn4+O2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Mn | Manganese | |
| Mn | ⓘ Pyrolusite | Mn4+O2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
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| Link to USGS MRDS: | 10046182 |
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- Mazatzal DomainDomain
- Pedregosa BasinBasin
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