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Mowry Smelter

  

Location

Unknown

A smelter in the 1860s produced about 200 tons of slag; a smelter about 1910 produced about 5,000 tons of slag. Ores from the Mowry mine were lead-silver.8

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 ore via
  2. Mining in the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains of Arizona, 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 Staton B. Keith, bulletin 191, Arizona Geological Survey, 1975
  6. Index of Mining Properties in Pima County by Staton B. Keith, bulletin 189, Arizona Geological Survey, 1974
  7. https://www.rvwest.com/article/benson/All_aboard_and_headed_for_Benson
  8. History of Smelting in Arizona, by Forrest R. Rickard, 1987; in History of Mining in Arizona, J. Michael Canty and Michael N. Greeley, eds. Published by the Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, 1987.