The Ostrich Mine is a silver and gold mine located in Santa Cruz county, Arizona at an elevation of 4,449 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,449 Feet (1,356 Meters)
Commodity: Silver, Gold
Lat, Long: 31.49167, -111.30806
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Ostrich Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Ostrich Mine
Secondary: Bartlett
Secondary: Skunk
Secondary: Gold Pen
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Lead
Location
State: Arizona
County: Santa Cruz
District: Yellow Jacket District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1873
Discovery Year: 1870
Discovery Method: Unknown
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: NARROW, IRREGULAR, LENSING
Form: NARROW, IRREGULAR, LENSING
Structure
Type: R
Description: Block Faulting.
Type: L
Description: Nw Faults
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Iron & Copper Staining On Quartz
Rocks
Name: Welded Tuff
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Name: Welded Tuff
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 28 CHANNEL SAMPLES IN 1935-1940 BY RFC INDICATE 0.2% AU. ACROSS 4.2' VEIN WIDTH.
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Silver
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Location): ADJACENT ON SE TO YELLOW JACKET CLAIMS. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)
Comment (Commodity): VALUES ARE ERRATIC & GENERAL TENOR IS LOW.
Comment (Production): WORKED BY SPANIEARDS IN 1700. WORKED MAINLY IN THE 1870'S AND 1880'S; SOME MINOR OPERATION SINCE THEN. ESTIMATED PRODUCTION IS SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS OF AU-AG ORE.
Comment (Deposit): ORE MINERALS LARGELY OXIDIZED; CONSIDERABLE GOUGE VEIN IS BLUISH GRAY QUARTZ FRAGMENTS IN SHEAR ZONE AND CLAY ALTERED TUFF.
Comment (Workings): SHAFT OPERATIONS, WORKINGS NOW CAVED
Comment (Geology): CONSIDERABLE GOUGE. SLIGHT MINERALIZATION ALONG NW FAULT ZONE BETWEEN OSTRICH AND YELLOW JACKET - AND VICINITY.
Comment (Deposit): THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD M241485 OF W. GERE WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS.
References
Reference (Deposit): USBM FILES, OSTRICH MINE.
Reference (Deposit): ABM BULL 191, P. 68.
Reference (Deposit): RFC B0536
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Production): CONSV - M000225
Reference (Deposit): KNIGHT, L.H., JR., 1970, ORO BLANCO DISTRICT: UNIV. ARIZ. PH.D. THESIS.
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