Mine Descriptions

Yellow Jacket Mine


Mining District and Mines

Oro Blanco District

Location

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Mineral Products6

Au, Ag, Cu-

Ownership6

Owner Name: Yellow Jacket Mines Co., Kelso, Reay & Setka, North Star Mines Inc.,

Type of Operation and Production6

Shaft operations. One of the oldest mines of district dating back to the 1800's anf intermittently productive through 1938. Total estimated and recorded production would be some 200 or more tons of ore averaging about 1.5 oz. Au/T, 1.6 oz. Ag/T, and minor Cu.

Geology6

Lensing quartz vein along a major fault zone containing disseminated pyrite and sparse base metal sulfides, mostly oxidized with supergene enrichment of gold and silver. Wall rock is Jurassic welded tuff cut by rhyolite dikes.

 


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).