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Wandering Jew Mine

Tyndall Mining district


Reference [2]

Company

Verfuth & Co., Henderson, Laguna, Beardsley & Co., O'Keefe, Headleys.

Location

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Mineral Products

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

Type of Operations

Shaft and adit operations. Worked sporadically from the early 1900's through 1951, producting some 1,700 tons of ore averaging about 11% Pb, 3 oz. Ag/T, and minor Cu and Au.5

Geology

Argentiferous galena, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, oxidized near the surface with silver enrichment, in an irregular quartz-fissure vein cutting Cretaceous rhyodactite tuff and interbedded arkose.5

  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