The American Boy Mine is a lead, silver, and copper mine located in Santa Cruz county, Arizona at an elevation of 5,400 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,400 Feet (1,646 Meters)
Commodity: Lead, Silver, Copper
Lat, Long: 31.62444, -110.82194
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American Boy Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: American Boy Mine
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Gold
Location
State: Arizona
County: Santa Cruz
District: Mansfield District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Gross Mining And Investment Co.
Years: 1952 -
Owner Name: Gross Mining And Investment Co.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1912
Year Last Production: 1951
Discovery Year: 1906
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Ne - Trending Quartz Fissure Veins Cutting Quartz Monzonite And Along Contact Between Monzonite And Nearby Rhyolite Intrusions
Type: L
Description: Quartz Monzonite Is Intruded And Overlain By Rhyolite In Vicinity
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Lode Consists Mainly Of Crushed And Altered Country Rock, Some Of It Altered To Kaolin
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age in Years: 145.000000+-
Dating Method: K-Ar
Age Young: Jurassic
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age in Years: 184.000000+-
Dating Method: Pb-Alpha
Age Young: Triassic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: ORE AVERAGE: 4.5% PB, 4% CU, 8 OZ/TON AG, .1 OZ/TON AU
Materials
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Tetrahedrite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Chalcocite
Gangue: Barite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Commodity): ORES ARE MOSTLY SULFIDES
Comment (Deposit): DEPOSITS CONTAINED IN A 25-FT LODE WHICH DIPS 80 N INTO HILL; LODE CONTAINS SEVERAL FEEDERS OR SPUR VEINS RANGING IN WIDTH FROM 8 INCHES TO 3 FT.; LODE IS TRACEABLE 5 MILES TO WEST; OTHER PROPERTIES ON THE AMERICAN BOY LODE ARE THE AUGUSTA AND ARIZONA-PITTSBURG MINES.
Comment (Workings): ABOUT 7,000 FT. OF TUNNELS AND DRIFTS, INCLUDING A 350-FT TUNNEL
Comment (Geology): COUNTRY ROCK SHEETED IN DIRECTIONS TRENDING N20W AND N40E; LEAD-CARBONATE CROPPINGS USUALLY INDICATE PRESENCE OF COPPER BELOW SURFACE.
Comment (Development): PROPERTY COMPRISES 9 PATENTED CLAIMS: (AMERICAN BOY, GREAT AMERICAN, DEEP DOWN 1, DEEP DOWN 2, RHODE ISLAND, NEW YORK, LOST HORSE, ALBERT GROSS, AND FRACTION); OTHER PAST OPERATORS INCLUDE: CLARK AND PETERSON (1916-1918), CLARK (1915), AND CLARK, PETERSON AND DAVID (1912)
Comment (Location): ON THE NORTH SIDE OF PIPER GULCH (A TRIBUTARY OF MANSFIELD GULCH); 1.25 MILES NW OF MANSFIELD MINE GROUP. INFO FROM LAND.ST :01, 41? (1979)
References
Reference (Deposit): USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA.
Reference (Deposit): USBM-FILE DATA-CLUSTER #118, AMERICAN BOY MINE.
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE DATA, AMERICAN BOY MINE.
Reference (Deposit): ADMR FILE DATA, AMERICAN BOY MINE.
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 582, P. 229-230.
Reference (Deposit): ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 88.
Reference (Deposit): BLM DISTRICT SHEET #687.
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH.
Reference (Deposit): USGS MAP I-614
Reference (Deposit): USGS PP 748, P. 14-15
Reference (Deposit): ROHRBACHER, ROBERT G., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE TEMPORAL GULCH-MANSFIELD CANYON AREA, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, P. 69-70.
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
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