Mine Descriptions

Tres Amigos Mine


Alternate Names

White Gold #3

Mining District and Mines

Oro Blanco District

Location

?5

Mineral Products6

Au, Ag

Ownership6

Owner Names: Oro Blanco Mg. Co., Fernald, Daniels, Legend Mines Group, Artesia Investment Co., Oro Blanco Mines Co.

Type of Operation and Production6

Tunnel and winze operations.

Geology6

Irregular lensing fissure zone of brecciated and pulverised Jurassic volcanic tuff cemented by finely crystalline quartz containingf ine grain gold and silver.

 


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).