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Dives Mine (Bear Cave Mine; Porter Mine; Emma Mine; Nettle Mine; Nobbey Mine), Dos Cabezas Mining District (Two Heads Mining District), Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USAi
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Dives Mine (Bear Cave Mine; Porter Mine; Emma Mine; Nettle Mine; Nobbey Mine)Mine
Dos Cabezas Mining District (Two Heads Mining District)Mining District
Dos Cabezas MountainsMountain Range
Cochise CountyCounty
ArizonaState
USACountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
32° 12' 5'' North , 109° 35' 44'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
32.20139,-109.59583
GeoHash:
G#: 9tdp4n4dx
GRN:
N22W66
Type:
Mine
Köppen climate type:
BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Bowie449 (2011)17.3km
Willcox3,552 (2017)22.9km
San Simon165 (2011)35.4km
Sunizona281 (2011)35.9km
Dragoon209 (2011)45.9km
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ClubLocationDistance
Sunsites Gem and Mineral ClubPearce, Arizona39km
Mindat Locality ID:
32637
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:32637:2
GUID (UUID V4):
0


A former small Au-Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag-Graphite mine located in the SW ¼ sec. 21, T.14S., R.27E., about 2½ miles North of Dos cabezas and South of the Central Copper Mine. Started in 1877. Reopened 1911-1914 and closed 1942. Owned at times, or in part, by the Consolidated Gold Mines, Inc. ( -1934), Dives Mining Co. (1919- ); Twin Peak Mining Co. (about 1922- ), and the Santa Maria Mining Co.

Mineralization is scattered bunches and disseminations of auriferous pyrite and minor base metal sulfides in a strong, coarsely-textured quartz vein along a fault fissure zone separating a wide band of metamorphosed, granitic Cretaceous shale from Precambrian granitic rock. Veins occur within steeply-dipping, metamorphosed black Cretaceous shales that occupy a belt approximately 1,100 feet wide. The 'Big Ledge', a vein of coarse-grained, white quartz, 100 feet wide, separates the shales from the Precambrian granite along the SW strand of the Apache Pass fault zone, and, in places, reportedly contains up to 0.10 oz Au/T. Gold occurs in the sulfides, mainly galena.

Workings include a 100 foot inclined shaft, a 1,000 foot adit and tunnels. Newer workings 212 feet below the upper tunnel included an adit 1,800 through the 'Big Ledge' and nearly through the slate belt. A 10-stamp mill and amalgamation-concentration mill was erected on the property. Some 10,000 tons of gold ore were produced sporadically from 1882 to 1931. Total estimated production is $20,000 Au (1911-1914), and $40,000 Au (1877 - 1920).

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6 valid minerals.

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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 1 - Elements
ⓘGraphite1.CB.05aC
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
ⓘSphalerite2.CB.05aZnS
ⓘChalcopyrite2.CB.10aCuFeS2
ⓘGalena2.CD.10PbS
ⓘPyrite
var. Gold-bearing Pyrite		2.EB.05aFeS2
ⓘ2.EB.05aFeS2
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates
ⓘMalachite5.BA.10Cu2(CO3)(OH)2

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
Hⓘ MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2
CCarbon
Cⓘ GraphiteC
Cⓘ MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2
OOxygen
Oⓘ MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2
SSulfur
Sⓘ Pyrite var. Gold-bearing PyriteFeS2
Sⓘ ChalcopyriteCuFeS2
Sⓘ GalenaPbS
Sⓘ PyriteFeS2
Sⓘ SphaleriteZnS
FeIron
Feⓘ Pyrite var. Gold-bearing PyriteFeS2
Feⓘ ChalcopyriteCuFeS2
Feⓘ PyriteFeS2
CuCopper
Cuⓘ ChalcopyriteCuFeS2
Cuⓘ MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2
ZnZinc
Znⓘ SphaleriteZnS
PbLead
Pbⓘ GalenaPbS

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References

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027127, MRDS ID #M002181; and, Dep. ID #10233726, MAS ID #0040030127.
Hamilton, Patrick (1881) The Resources of Arizona - A Manual of Reliable Information Concerning the Territory. The Legislature of the Territory of Arizona. p.65
Wilson, E.D., Cunningham, J.B., and Butler, G.M. (1934), Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 137: 118-119.
Elsing, M.J. and Heineman, E.S. (1936) Arizona Metal Production, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 140: 91.
Shields, J.C., II (1940) Geology and ore deposits of the Dives and Gold Ridge Groups, Dos Cabezas, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. thesis, 67 p.
Cooper, J.R. (1960) Reconnaissance map of the Willcox, Fisher Hills, Cochise, and Dos Cabezas quadrangles, Cochise and Graham Counties, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Field Studies Map MF-231, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500.
(1973) Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona. University of Arizona Bulletin 187. Arizona Bureau of Mines p.61 - Table 4
Drewes, H., et al (1988), Volcanic and Structural Controls of Mineralization in the Dos Cabezas Mountains of southeast Arizona, USGS Bull. 1676: 21 (Figure 6), 20.
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