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The Wild Cat group of claims is about a mile SSW of Josephine Peak and 1½ miles west of the Walker mine, in the head of Temporal Gulch, at an elevation of 6,500 feet. The camp is located just east of the range. The deposit was discovered in 1880 and was relocated in 1907 by the present owners F. B. Sayer, R. T. Stump, and others.It is opened by two tunnels, each about 200 feet in length, spaced 130 feet apart vertically and 1,000 feet horizontally. The topography is mountainous. The country rock is coarse-grained diorite, some of which is nearly black, representing a very basic segregation, and apparently stands near anorthosite. The deposits occur principally in a rhyolite dike or ledge 200 feet wide which cuts the diorite. In the lower tunnel, where it makes the best showing, the dike contains numerous east-west seams, stringers, or parallel veins, the largest about an inch wide, which are composed of massive crystalline pyrite with some chalcopyrite and parts of which are said to assay 0.5% copper and $18.60 in gold and 6 ounces of silver to the ton. The ledge extends for half a mile east of the prospect and for a considerable distance to the west acrosss the divide into Josephine Canyon. Some sulfur and alum are leached out on its surface, and the diorite on the north contains a small deposit of specular hematite.2 Alternate NamesSayer CompanyF. B. Sayer, R. T. Stump, and others.2 Mining DistrictWrightson District References
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