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Native Silver Prospect

The Native Silver prospect, now abandoned, is a quarter of a mile northeast of the Gray camp, on a shear zone that strikes N 75° E and dips 85° S in granite porphyry. It is open by an old shaft whose dump shows yellow and red stained drusy quartz containing a little pyrite2.

Ownership

unclear

Location

31.47667,-110.7880610

Mineral Products

silver2

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, 11/21/23
  4. USGS Mineral Resources Data System - possibly using NAD72 (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
  6. Geology of the Three R Mine, Palmetto Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona by Paul Handverger, MS thesis 1963, University of Arizona
  7. https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10046338
  8. https://azdeq.gov/Three-R-Mine
  9. https://tucson.com/news/local/three-r-mine-contributed-to-arizonas-rep-for-copper-production/article_2a25e1e1-7280-5fd5-be97-a40732a39b1b.html
  10. mindat.org