York Mine, Daylight-Narragansett Mines (Narragansett-Daylight Mines), Rosemont (Rosemont Camp), Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima 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
Type:
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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: 128-129.
Creasey, S.C. & G.L. Quick (1955), Copper deposits of part of Helvetia mining district, Pima County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 1027-F: 318, 319.
Keith, Stanton B. (1974), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, Arizona: 125 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
A Cu-Ag-Zn-Pb-Au mine group located on the York claim, in the SE ¼ sec. 24 & the NE ¼ sec. 25, T.18S., R.15E. Owned at times, or in part, by the Lewisohn Copper Co.; Brown; Ramsdell; Narragansett Mines Co.; Holderness; Steinfeld & Co.; Bennett; and the Wilson Mining Co.
Mineralization is copper carbonates with minor sulfides and local areas of lead and zinc minerals in irregular, pyrometasomatic replacement orebodies in intensely silicated and crushed Paleozoic limestone along folded series of thrust-faulted block segments.
Workings include tunnels and shafts.
List of minerals for each chemical element
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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