Mine Descriptions

Ophir Gulch Placers


Mining District and Mines

Greaterville Area

Hughes Gulch In Hughes Gulch, which heads 2 miles west of Greaterville, just south of the Yuba mine, and extends north of Granite Mountain, a narrow channel, rarely over 6 feet wide from its head to mouth, was found productive at 2 to 6 feet below the surface2

Ophir Gulch: Ophir Gulch, which heads northeast of the Yuba mine, contains no placer deposits above its junction with Hughes Gulch. Below Greaterville, however, a channel 200 feet wide was found to contain gold as far down as the mouth of Sucker Gulch. The bedrock is rather deep here and little work has been done.2


Excavated Trench


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.