Arrasta Mine

About a mile a little south of west from the Deering Camp, in Box Canyon, at an elevation of 4,800 feet occurs a quartz vein 1 foot wide which dips to the south between granite and a 4 foot rhyolite dyke. The vein is opened by a 12 foot shaft. The quartz shows comb structure, is honeycombed, pitted, and stained with limonite, and contains some galena and a little pyrite. Some of the ore when reduced in an old arrastre 200 feet to the northwest is said to have yielded considerable free gold².

Alternate Names

None

Company

Holliday⁶

Mining District and Mines

Greaterville District

Arizona Geological Survey Mining data

Location

19S 15E NW¼ 12⁶

Mineral Products

Au, Pb, Ag, Cu.⁶

Geology

Partially oxidized galena, pyrite, and minor chalcopyrite with free gold in a honey-combed, limonite stained, quartz vein bordering a Laramide quartz latite dyke cutting Precambian granodorite.⁶

Type of Operation and Production

Shallow shaft and open cut. Worked prior to 1900 and in 1932, producing a small tommage of high grade Au ore, with minor PB, Ag, and Cu.⁶

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, F. C. Schrader, 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 Stanton B. Keith, bulletin 1991, Arizona Geological Survey, 1975
6. Index of Mining Properties in Pima County by Stanton B. Keith, bulletin 189, Arizona Geological Survey, 1974