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Mine Descriptions

Billey Sunday Mine

Alternate Names

None known

Mining District and Mines

Greaterville District


Surface and Underground Workings

USBM: Several inclined shafts to at least 75 feet deep contain many interconnecting drifts and stopes; also many surface prospects1.

surface prospect 1
Surface Prospect 1, 3-27-22

shaft 1
Shaft, 3-27-22

shaft 2
Shaft closeup, 3-27-22

spoil heap
Spoil heap, taken near to sample site, SR251, 3-27-22

surface prospect 2
Surface Prospect 2, 3-27-22

Location

31.72543N, 110.75628W4

W, ctrl, sec. 6
T. 20 S., R. 16 E.1

Mineral Products

USBM: Ag, >5 - >300 ppm; Au, 13 - 1,560 ppb; Cu, 12 - 1,371 ppm; Mn 305 - 7,630 ppm; Mo 2 - 691 ppm; Pb, 80 - >10,000 ppm; Sb, 14 - 4,224 ppm; Zn 80 - >10,000 ppm (some assays had interference due to high Sb, As, and Zn concentrations).1

Geology

Several crosscuting sheer and fault zones cutting limestone and quartzite. Primarily, the zones contain heavily oxidized gouge material. 1

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, 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)