Heintzelman Mine

Alternate Names

Cerro Colorado mine, Silver Queen

Mining District and Mines

Cerro Colorado District

Location

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Mineral Products⁶

Ag, Au, Pb, Zn, Cu (Hg)

Ownership⁶

Owner Name: Sonora Exploration and Mining Co., Consolidated Arizona Mine & Mllg. Co., Cerro Colorado Mine & Mllg. Co., Udall, Cerro Cristo Mine Co., Steinfeld, Baker, Snyder.

Type of Operation and Production⁶

Shaft workings. Operated from 1770's to about 1937, producing some 3,000 tons of ore averaging about 100 oz. Ag/T, 0.1 oz Au/T, and minor amouts of lead and copper.

Geology⁶

Irregular, lensing, drusy, quartz-fissure vein with spotty cerargyrite, cerussite, anglesite, chrysocolla, copper carbonates, freibergite, galena, sphalerite an traces of cinnabar. Minor barite, calcite and much iron oxide. Wall rock is an andesite porphyry complex.

References

1. Mineral Appraisal of Coronado National Forest, Part 12, Santa Rita Mountains Unit, MLA11-94 (1994). SR 591-609
   https://data.azgs.arizona.edu/api/v1/collections/BMRI-1552428987530-264/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. mindat.org
4. USGS Mineral Resources Data System - possibly using NAD72 (https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/map-commodity.html#home)
5. https://westernmininghistory.com/mine-detail/10162214/
6. Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz county, Arizona; Stanton B. Keith, Arizona Geological Survey, Bulletin 191 (1975).