Heintzelman Mine

AKA: Cerro Colorado mine, Silver Queen mine

Mining District and Mines

Cerro Colorado District

USBM:

Location

20S 10E Central 25, 31.66013, -111.27402W⁷

Mineral Products⁷

Ag, Au, Pb, Zn, C, (Hg)

Ownership⁷

Owner Name: Sonora Exploration & Mng,, Consolidated Arizona Mine & Mllg. Co., Cerro Colorado Mining & Mllg. Co., Udall, Cerro Cristo Mines Co., Steinfeld, Baker, Snider.

Type of Operation and Production⁷

Shaft workings. Operated from 1770’s to about 1937, producing some 3,000 tons of ore averaging about 100 oz. Ag/T, 0.1 oz. Au/T, and minor amounts of lead and copper.

Geology⁷

Irregular, lensing, drusy, quartz fissure vein with spotty cerargyrite, cerussite, anglesite, chrysocolla, copper carbonate, freibergite, galena, sphalerite and traces of cinnibar. Minor barite, calcite, and much iron oxide. Wall rock is an andesite porphyry complex.
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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).
7. Index of Mining Properties in Pima county, Arizona; Stanton B. Keith, Arizona Geological Survey, Bulletin 189 (1974).