Highside Mine (Highside claim), Eureka-Marble Mine group, Salero Hill (Salero Mountain), Salero area, Tyndall Mining District, 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. & J.M. Hill (1915), Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, USGS Bull. 582: 212.
Keith, Stanton B. (1975), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County Arizona: 85 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
A Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag-Au mine located in the NE ¼ sec. 24, T.21S., R.14E. Owned at times, or in part, by Clark & Peterson; C.H. Ferry (since before 1902); Blake; Salero Mines Co.; GArdner; Tobin & Pond; Henderson; Kolberg; and the Eureka Mining & Milling Co..
Mineralization is partly oxidized sulfides and sulfosalts, with supergene enrichment of silver, in a crushed, banded quartz gangue, recemented with iron oxide and silica, in a fissure zone cutting Laramide diorite. Strong pyrite gossan.
Workings include shaft operations and crosscut tunnels. Prospected as early as the 1850's and worked intermittently through 1942. The group produced some 950 tons of ore averaging about 12% Pb, 22oz. Ag/T, and minor Cu and Au.
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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
- Southern Basin and RangeWide Rift
USA
- Arizona
- Santa Rita MountainsMountain Range
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