Carrie Nation Mine (Square Deal prospect), Madera Canyon, Old Baldy Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USAi

Regional Level Types
Carrie Nation Mine (Square Deal prospect)	Mine
Madera Canyon	Canyon
Old Baldy Mining District	Mining District
Santa Cruz County	County
Arizona	State
USA	Country

‡Ref.: Schrader, F.C. & J.M. Hill (1915), Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, USGS Bull. 582: 168, 178-179.

Whitacre, H.E., 1964, Geology of the Madera-Agua Caliente Canyon area, southern Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. thesis, 41 p.

Drewes, H.D. (1971) Geologic map of the Mount Wrightson quadrangle, southeast of Tucson, Santa Cruz and Pima Counties, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-614, 1 sheet, scale 1:48,000.

Keith, Stanton B. (1975) State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.

USGS Mt Wrightson Quadrangle topo map.

U.S. Bureau of Mines field notes, CU51.

U.S. Bureau of Mines file data, Carrie Nation Mine.

Arizona Bureau of Mines card file Santa Cruz County.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10037109, MRDS ID #M030416; and, Dep. ID #10283405, MAS ID #0040230143.

A former small underground Cu-Pb-Zn-Mo mine located in the NE¼NE¼NE¼ sec. 14, T20S, R14E, in the SW corner of the district on the west side of the west fork of Madera Canyon near its head, at an elevation of about 6,450 feet, on National Forest land. Discovered 1915. Owned by the Tres Estados Mining Co. Lessees reported to have opened the mine in 1964.

Mineralization is a fault shear zone in reddish-gray medium-grained quartz monzonite striking WNW and dipping vertically. The croppings of the deposit, which are not prominent, are iron-stained quartz and silicified monzonite. Ore control was NW-trending veins in a shear zone cutting quartz diorite. Host rock units include the Josephine Canyon Diorite and the Madera Canyon Granodiorite.

The zone trends WNW across the sheeting structure of the rock and stands about vertical. It has good walls, each usually with about 2 inches (5 cm) of associated gouge. The vein filling consists principally of sheared monzonite and in places material resembling some dark dike rock or possibly quartz schist. The ore minerals impregnate the monzonite and occur also in lenses, streaks, and small bodies, which are banded with quartz. The Carrie Nation ledge is said to extend E to the top of Jack Mountain, where the Square Deal Mine is located on the same ledge.

Workings include an adit, a 240 foot cross-cut tunnel, 110 feet of drifts, and a 30 foot (9.14 meters) deep shaft. There were about 124 tons of ore on the dump in 1915.

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