Pina Mine, Sunnyside & Volcano Mines (Sunnyside Mine group; Volcano-Sunnyside Mine; Sunnyside Mine), Alum Gulch, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
31° North , 110° West (est.)
Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.
Margin of Error:
~1km
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Ref.: Schrader, F.C. (1915) Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, with contributions by J.M. Hill: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 582, 373 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:125,000: 254-256.
Kartchner, W.E. (1944) The geology and ore deposits of a portion of the Harshaw district, Patagonia Mountains, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, Ph.D. dissertation, 100 p.
Keith, Stanton B. (1975), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County Arizona: 59 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
A Cu-Ag-Pb-Zn-Au mine group located in East-central sec. 6, T.23S., R.16E. (protracted). Owned at times, or in part, by Farrell; Lenon & Vasquez; and, Strong & Harris.
Deposit is a mineralized and silicified shear zone containing copper carbonates and minor tenorite and sulfides along a fault cutting Laramide rhyolite conglomerate and porphyry.
Workings are shallow shafts and open cuts. Worked in the late 1890's and sporadically through 1953.
List of minerals for each chemical element
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