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Mine Descriptions

Bextrum Mine

Not in Keith, 1975.

Mine shaft is in Pena Blanca Canyon and is marked on the USGS maps.3


Possible Midnight Mine in Pena Blanca Canyon

Alternate Names

None

Company

Mr. Carson7.

Mining District and Mines

Patagonia District

Arizona Geological Survey Mining data

Location

31.3698, -111.1057 from USGS map3. Not found on 12/22/24 hike.

31.37083,-111.108617

Mineral Products

A former underground Pb-Ag mine located in the SW¼NW¼ sec. 3, T23S, R12E, on National Forest land. Mr. Carson had unspecified involvement here (1947).7

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
  7. https://www.mindat.org/loc-62982.html