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Bluestone claims, New Cornelia Mine area, New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USAi
Regional Level Types
Bluestone claimsGroup of Claims
New Cornelia Mine areaMining Area
New Cornelia MineMine (Inactive)
AjoCensus-designated Place
Little Ajo MountainsMountain Range
Ajo Mining DistrictMining District
Pima CountyCounty
ArizonaState
USACountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
32° 18' 32'' North , 112° 51' 11'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
32.30889,-112.85333
GRN:
N22W68
Type:
Group of Claims
Köppen climate type:
BWh : Hot deserts climate
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Ajo3,304 (2011)7.0km
Why167 (2017)11.7km
Colinas de Sonoidag289 (2014)47.3km
Wahak Hotrontk114 (2011)47.9km
Adolfo López Mateos201 (2014)49.5km
Mindat Locality ID:
67946
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:67946:9
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Bluestone Copper; Ajo Extension


A group of Cu claims/occurrence/prospect with underground workings located in secs. 2, 10 & 11, T13S, R6W and all of sec. 35, T.12S., R.6W. (Ajo 15 minute topo map), 4 miles S of Ajo on private land. Owned by Hovel A. Smith and Clive Van Dyke (1942).

Mineralization includes secondary copper minerals. Possibly related to the New Cornelia orebody. Geology is speculated from the New Cornelia area (3 miles north). Depth to the top of the orebody is 487.68 meters.

Workings were a drilling program only.

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Link to USGS MRDS:10186277

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References

U.S. Bureau of Mines file 463.2/14061.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027169, MRDS ID #M002358; and, Dep. ID #10186277, MAS ID #0040190589; and, Dep. ID #10283595, MAS ID #0040190910.
Williams, F.E. (1968), Tabulation of selected copper deposits in the United States, U.S. Bureau of Mines (unpublished).
Niemuth, Nyal J., Phillips, Ken A. (1992, July) Copper Oxide Resources. Open-file Report 92-10. Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resourcesp.11 - Table 1
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