Mine Descriptions

Alfonso Villy Mine


Not in Keith, 1975.

The Alfonso Villy prospect, named for the owner, is a quarter of a mile east-northeast of international-boundary post 114. It is on a vertical quartz vein in the quartz monzonite. The vein is 6 feet wide, strikes N. 70° W., and contains seams of pyrite and chalcopyrite coated with chalcocite and covellite. The minerals also occur in small fissures in the adjoining quartz monzonite. The vein is opened by several small shafts.2

Alternate Names

None

Company

2.

Mining District and Mines

Patagonia District

Arizona Geological Survey Mining data

Location

31.33556, -110.710836

Elevation: 5,951 Feet(1,814 Meters)

Mineral Products

Cu

Geology

 

Type of Operation and Production


References

  1. Mineral Appraisal of Coronado National Forest, Part 12, Santa Rita Mountains Unit, MLA11-94 (1994). SR 591-609
    http://repository.azgs.az.gov/sites/default/files/dlio/files/nid1813/usbm_mla_011-94.pdf
  2. Mining in the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains of Arizona, F. C. Schrader, U.S. Department of Interior, 1915. Republished 2014 by Kerby Jackson.
  3. Mike Bertram,
  4. USGS Mineral Resources Data System - using WGS84 (https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/map-commodity.html#home)
  5. Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County by Stanton B. Keith, bulletin 1991, Arizona Geological Survey, 1975
  6. WesternMiningHistory.com