The Eleven and Celtic Group is a copper mine located in Greenlee county, Arizona at an elevation of 5,919 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 5,919 Feet (1,804 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 33.13139, -109.32944
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Eleven and Celtic Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Eleven and Celtic Group
Secondary: Celtic Group
Secondary: Veiled Prophet Group
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Location
State: Arizona
County: Greenlee
District: Copper Mountain District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1906
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: IRREGULAR BODIES OF LOW-GRADE ORE
Structure
Type: R
Description: Ne Trending Narrow Porphyry Dikes; Veins Consist Of Many Very Sharply Defined Fissure Planes Striking Nne
Type: L
Description: Monzonite Porphyry Fragmented By Masses Of Quartzite, Limestone, And Shale
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Surface Oxidation To Unknown Depths; Porphyry Greatly Bleached By Sericitization And Extensively Cemented By Quartz Veinlets
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age in Years: 55.500000+-0.500000
Age Young: Tertiary
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 1921 ASSAY VALUES AVERAGED 9% CU AND 17 OZ AG
Materials
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Brochantite
Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Chalcocite
Gangue: Magnetite
Gangue: Epidote
Gangue: Orthoclase
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Deposit): 16 UNPATENTED CLAIMS TOTALLING 320 ACRES COMPRISED THE CELTIC GROUP, WHICH LATER BECAME PART OF THE VEILED PROPHET GROUP OF 30 PATENTED CLAIMS
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDED ONE 65 FT SHAFT
Comment (Geology): SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF CRUSHING OF GRANITE AND PORPHYRY DURING FISSURE FORMATION; REGIONAL SURFACE ORE DEPOSITS CONSIST OF MALACHITE AND OTHER OXIDIZED MINERALS WHICH ARE REPLACED AT DEPTHS OF 200 FT OR LESS BY SECONDARY CHALCOCITE; PRIMARY ORES AT DEPTH CONSIST OF PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE
Comment (Development): OPERATORS INCLUDED OWEN MORRIS, W.H. MCDONALD, DAN LYNCH, CELTIC COPPER CO, ARCHIBALD MORRISON, CAPTAIN THOMSON
Comment (Location): 30 VEILED PROPHET CLAIMS EXTEND FROM JUST NE OF ROCKY GULCH DIVIDE IN SECTION 3 THROUGH SOUTH HALF OF SECTION 34 AND NORTH HALF OF SECTION 35 BORDERING PLACER GULCH; UTM AND GEODETIC COORDINATED DESCRIBE CENTRAL ADIT IN CLUSTER OF PROSPECTS IN NE QUARTER OF SECTION 35 (THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL CELTIC GROUP CLAIMS CENTRAL ADIT IN CLUSTER OF PROSPECTS IN NE QUARTER OF SECTION 35 (THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL CELTIC GROUP CLAIMS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS PP 43, P. 362
Reference (Deposit): STEVENS, H.J., 1909, THE COPPER HANDBOOK, VOL. IX, PAGE 500, CELTIC COPPER CO
Reference (Deposit): BLM DISTRICT SHEET 839
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, CELTIC COPPER CO AND POLARIS MINING AND MILLING CO
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA
Reference (Deposit): BENNETT, 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, AZ: MS THESIS UNIV OF ARIZ, 153 P.
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