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Tres Amigos Lead Mine

Mining District and Mines

Oro Blanco District

Location

?5

Mineral Products6

Pb, Ag

Ownership6

Owner Names: Noon, Dale

Type of Operation and Production6

Adit and shaft operations.

Geology6

Shear Vein in Cretaceous conglomerate with spotty high grade argentiferous lead mineralization.

 

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).