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Baumkirscher Mine, Cochise County, Arizona, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
31° 24' 2'' North , 110° 14' 48'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
31.40056,-110.24667
GRN:
N21W68
Type:
Mine
Köppen climate type:
BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Sierra Vista Southeast14,797 (2011)6.6km
Miracle Valley644 (2011)9.2km
Palominas212 (2011)12.4km
Sierra Vista43,355 (2017)17.9km
Huachuca City1,755 (2017)26.6km
Nearest Clubs:
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ClubLocationDistance
Huachuca Mineral and Gem ClubSierra Vista, Arizona18km
Mindat Locality ID:
32741
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:32741:4
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Baumkirchner Mine; Crocket Moon Mine; M Lode Mine; International Mine; Golconda Mine; Golden Crown groups


A former small underground Pb-Zn-Cu-Au-Ag mine located in central sec. 30, T.23S. R.21E. and in sec. 5, T.24S., R 21 E, on private land. First produced 1925. Owned at times, or in part, by the Arizona Imperial Mines Extension Co. and the International Gold and Rare Metals Co.

Mineralization is spotty and sparse base metal carbonate and sulfide ore in small, erratic replacement in exotic blocks of Paleozoic limestone in Triassic-Jurassic volcanics. Also as traces of gold, silver, copper and lead in a large quartz vein along a thrust fault in Precambrian granite.

Workings include many shaft and tunnel workings but only very minor test lots of ore were produced intermittently from 1925 thru 1937.

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Link to USGS MRDS:10026972

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References

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10026972, MRDS ID #M001440; and, Dep. ID #10258794, MAS ID #0040030097.
(1973) Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona. University of Arizona Bulletin 187. Arizona Bureau of Mines p.65 - Table 4
Ludington, Steve (1984) Preliminary resource assessment of the proposed Miller Peak Wilderness, Cochise County, Arizona. Open-File Report Vol. 1984 (84-293) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr84293 pp.3-4
Tuftin, S.E. and Armstrong, R.C. (1994) U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report Mineral Land Assessment (MLA) 1-94.
(2024) Peabody GNIS Service, Yale Peabody Museum.
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