Walker Mine

The Walker mine is about 10 miles NNW of Patagonia and 2½ miles north of the Anaconda Camp, near the head of the south fork of Casa Blanca (formerly Josephine) Canyon, at an elevation of 5,750 feet. It was first worked in 1894 and is now owned by H. C. Hale of Patagonia. The deposits are contained in a 5 foot silcceous iron-stained vein which dips 80° NW in crudely bedded andesite agglomerate and tuff which dip 40° SE. The vein consists mainly of crushed tuffaceous andesite cemented by quartz, and the ore seen on the dump consists principally this gangue coated with azurite, malachite, and seeingly silver bromide. Samples of the ore are said to assay as high as 1,000 ounces of silver to the ton.

Alternate Names

none

Company

unknown.⁵

Mining District

Wrightson District

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, 2/1/26
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. WesternMiningHistory.com