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Oro Blanco Mine

Alternate Names

White Gold Mine

Mining District and Mines

Oro Blanco District

Location

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Mineral Products6

Au, Ag, Cu-, Pb-, Zn-

Ownership6

Owner Name: Oro Blanco Mg. Co., Fernald, Legend Group Ltd., Artesia Investment Co., Oro Blanco Mines Co.

Type of Operation and Production6

Shaft and Adit operations.

Geology6

Lensing fissure zone of brecciated and pulverized Tertiary volcanics cemented by finely crystalline quartz containing fine grain gold and silver with sparse oxidized base metal sulfides and iron and manganese oxides.

 

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).