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Mine Descriptions

Buena Vista Mine


Alternate Names

Goodview.

Company

Maloney, Black Mountain Mg. Co., Banco del Oro Mg., Goodview Mg. & Mllg. Co., Kino Copper Co., Coronado Mines Inc., Graybill & Jarnagin, Dunham & Nanez, Jarnagin & Bopp.

Mining District and Mines

Patagonia District

Location

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Mineral Products

Cu, Ag, Au-, Pb-, Mo-.5

Type of Operation

Extensive tunnel operations. Located in the late 1800's and mined intermittently through 1958. Produced some 850 tons of ore averaging about 3% Cu, 1 oz. Ag/T, and minor Au and Pb.5

Geology

Series of narrow, irregular quartz-calcite veins, associated with bands of crushed mineralized rock, containing pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite and minor molybdenite. Fault or shear zone cutting Laramide grandorite. Minor oxidation with some covellite and galena showing at the surface.5


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)
  5. Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County by Staton B. Keith, bulletin 1991, Arizona Geological Survey, 1975