The Ramsey Mine is a lead, zinc, and silver mine located in La Paz county, Arizona.
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Mine Info
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Ramsey Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Ramsey Mine
Secondary: R and A Mine
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Zinc
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Gold
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Tertiary: Strontium
Tertiary: Vanadium
Location
State: Arizona
County: La Paz
District: Neversweat District
Land Status
Land ownership: Federal
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
Owner Name: Black Mesa Mining Co.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1921
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
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: SOME 8400 TONS OF ORE AVERAGING ABOUT 35 OZ AG/TON,1% PB, 0.5% ZN, 0.1% CU AND MINOR AU.
Materials
Gangue: Barite
Gangue: Celestite
Comments
Comment (Development): WORKED NEARLY CONTINUOUSLY THROUGH 1969.
Comment (Deposit): SPOTTY, BUT OFTEN LOCALLY HIGH-GRADE, OXIDIZED, LEAD, SILVER, ZINC AND COPPER MINERALIZATION WITH BARITE, CELESTITE, VANADINITE, AND MANGANESE AND IRON OXIDES, IN A WIDE VEIN ZONE OF FRACTURES AND FISSURES.
Comment (Workings): SHAFT WITH SEVERAL LEVELS
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)
Comment (Production): IN 1947, 18 CARS OF ORE PRODUCTION. 5 CLAIMS
References
Reference (Deposit): U.S.B.M. FILE
Reference (Deposit): ABM BULL 192, P. 171.
Reference (Deposit): PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.
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