First Chance Mine, Dos Cabezas, Dos Cabezas Mining District (Two Heads Mining District), Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USAi
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32° 11' 39'' North , 109° 33' 50'' West
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| Club | Location | Distance |
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| Sunsites Gem and Mineral Club | Pearce, Arizona | 40km |
A former small surface Au-Pb-Ag mine located in the NW ¼ sec. 26, T.14S., R.27E, approximately 3 miles NE of Dos Cabezas, on private land. Owned at times, or in part, by the Globe Mining and Smelting Co.; Equities, Inc.; Bean.
Mineralization is pyritic gold-quartz vein with minor lead in a fault fissure zone cutting pyrometamorphosed Cretaceous limy shale. The host rock unit is the Bisbee Group.
Local structures include Bisbee group shale faulted against Precambrian Rapakivi Quartz Monzonite immediately south. The fault trends E-W.
Workings include a shallow pit and open cut workings. Several hundred tons of ore were produced in the 1880's and a few tons in 1936-1937.
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| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
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| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
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| Link to USGS MRDS: | 10046180 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Mexico
- Sierra Madre OccidentalMountain Range
North AmericaContinent
- Sonoran DesertDesert
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Basin and Range BasinsBasin
- Mazatzal DomainDomain
- Pedregosa BasinBasin
- Southern Basin and RangeWide Rift
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