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Ingersol Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
31° 42' 15'' North , 110° 4' 14'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
31.70417,-110.07083
GeoHash:
G#: 9t9sr78f5
GRN:
N22W67
Type:
Mine
Köppen climate type:
BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Tombstone1,312 (2017)1.0km
Whetstone2,617 (2017)25.4km
Saint David1,699 (2011)26.0km
Huachuca City1,755 (2017)26.3km
Sierra Vista43,355 (2017)27.6km
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ClubLocationDistance
Huachuca Mineral and Gem ClubSierra Vista, Arizona28km
Sunsites Gem and Mineral ClubPearce, Arizona33km
Mindat Locality ID:
32967
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:32967:0
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Bob Ingersol Mine; Ingersoll Mine; Bob Ingersoll Mine; Blue Monday Mine; Hearst-Hagen Estate


A former small underground Pb-Ag-Zn-Au-Cu-Cd-Mn mine located in the SE ¼ sec. 11, T.20S., R.22E. (Tombstone 7.5 minute topo map), 3/4 mile SW of Tombstone, on private land. Produced 1885-1932. Legend exists that George Hearst won the property in a 1880s poker game in Tombstone. Owned at times, or in part, by the Hearst-Hagen Estate and the VMP Leasing Co.

Mineralization is oxidized replacement deposits of base metal sulfides with small, high grade streaks of silver-gold values in an overturned fold of Cretaceous Bisbee Group limestone cut by 'northeast' fissures. The ore is oxidized.

Local structures include post-mineralization faulting which occurred on WNW and NNW trends, tilting the basin NNE; "Northeast fissures."

Workings include a shaft(s)(200 foot deep shaft (1881)), and ultimately to 121.92 meters. Work on the 100-400 foot levels, 400 foot level worked in 1923-1932. Probably 2000 or more feet of workings. Several thousand tons of ore were produced in the 1880s and a few thousand tons intermittently from 1918 to 1932. No zinc reported to USBM; however, zinc was reported in literature.

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1 valid mineral.

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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
ⓘ'Tetrahedrite Subgroup'2.GB.05Cu6(Cu4C2+2)Sb4S12S
ⓘFamatinite2.KA.10Cu3SbS4

List of minerals for each chemical element

SSulfur
Sⓘ FamatiniteCu3SbS4
Sⓘ Tetrahedrite SubgroupCu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S
CuCopper
Cuⓘ FamatiniteCu3SbS4
Cuⓘ Tetrahedrite SubgroupCu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S
SbAntimony
Sbⓘ FamatiniteCu3SbS4
Sbⓘ Tetrahedrite SubgroupCu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S

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References

Arizona Bureau of Mines files.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10026910, MRDS ID #M000997; and, Dep. ID #10185728, MAS ID #0040030631.
Hamilton, Patrick (1881) The Resources of Arizona - A Manual of Reliable Information Concerning the Territory. The Legislature of the Territory of Arizona. p.37
Blake, W.P. (1882) The geology and veins of Tombstone, Arizona: American Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions: 10: 334-345; also Engineering and Mining Journal: 33: 145-146, 157, 231-232, 328; and, vol. 34: 29-30.
Butler, B.S., Wilson, E.D., and Rasor, C.A. (1938b), Geology and ore deposits of the Tombstone district, Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 143: 44, 48, 77, 89, 91, 96, Pl. IV.
Rasor, C.A. (1939), Manganese mineralization at Tombstone, Arizona, Economic Geology: 34: 790-803.
Galbraith, F. W. (1947) Minerals of Arizona (Second Edition, Revised) University of Arizona Bulletin 153. Arizona Bureau of Mines
Romslo, T.M. & S.F. Ravitz (1947), Arizona manganese-silver ores, U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 4097.
Burnham, C.W. (1959), Metallogenic provinces of the southwestern US and northern Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Bull. 65: 31.
(1973) Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona. University of Arizona Bulletin 187. Arizona Bureau of Mines p.76 - Table 4
Niemuth, Nyal J., Phillips, Ken A. (1992, July) Copper Oxide Resources. Open-file Report 92-10. Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resourcesp.5 - Table 1
Anthony, John W., Williams, Sidney A., Bideaux, Richard A., Grant, Raymond W. (1995) Mineralogy of Arizona (3rd ed.). University of Arizona Press.
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