Happy Jack Mine

Wrightson Mining district

Alternate Names

Mountain View, Clipper, Eclipse

Company

Jim Lewis, Barnett & Powers, Happy Jack Mg. Co., Happy Jack Mg. & Reduction Co.

Location

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Mineral Products

Pb, Ag, Cu, Au-, Zn-, U?

Type of Operations

Tunnel operations. Worked sporadically from 1881 through 1908, producting some 150 tons of ore averaging about 34% Pb,24 oz. Ag/T, 2% Cu and 0.1 oz. Au/T.⁵

Geology

Irregular and lensing quartz-fissure veins containing brecciated and altered wall rock, gouge, and streaks and shoots of argentiferous galena, tetrahedrite, argentite chalcopyrite, and pyrite in Jurassic granite cut by lamprophyre dikes. Possible uranium reported but not confirmed.⁵

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