Mine Descriptions

Reagan Mine Group


Alternate Names

Reagan bros. & Peck, Loftus

Company

None known

Mining District and Mines

Nogales District

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Reagan mine along Ruby Road

Arizona Geological Survey Mining data

http://docs.azgs.az.gov/OnlineAccessMineFiles/M-R/ReagangroupSantacruz90c.pdf

Location

On northern extremities of Mount Benedict, north of Nogales. Originally part of the Baca float.

23S 14E E. Cen. 295

31.4032N, 110.92596W4

Mineral Products

Au, Pb, Ag.5

Pit and open cut operations. Wolframite discovered in 1906 and deposit worked sporadically in early 1900's and late 1930's. Estimated production would be about 1,500 lbs. of 50% WO3 concentrates.5

Geology

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Ref: 2

Lensing quartz fisure veins, comb structured and banded, with spotty wolframite and minor scheelite, cutting Jurassic quartz monzonite and in a dike swarm of chloritized and locally epidotized lampropyre. Mineralization appears shallow, local, and pockety.5


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,
  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