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Why Not Mine, Why Not - Clipper - Gold Mine group, Harquahala Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
33° North , 113° West (est.)
Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.
Margin of Error:
~1km
GRN:
N23W68
Type:
Mine
Köppen climate type:
BWh : Hot deserts climate
Mindat Locality ID:
33513
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:33513:0
GUID (UUID V4):
0


A Au-Ag-Cu-Fe mine located in the center and East-central portions of sec. 30, T5N, R11W. Owned at times, or in part, by Salome Gold Co.; Carper et alia; Huttan & Earp; Johnson; Smith; and, Long & Gilbert.

Mineralization is spotty gold with silver and copper ores and iron oxides, quartz, and calcite, in irregular fissure veins in Paleozoic-Mesozoic metamorphosed sediments intruded by dikes.

Workings include tunnel and open cut operations. This mine group was worked mainly from 1932 through 1939. It produced some 370 tons of ore averaging about 3.3 oz. Au/T, 1.8 oz. Ag/T and 1.8% Cu.

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References

Arizona Bureau of Mines file data
Keith, Stanton B. (1978) Index of Mining Properties in Yuma County, Arizona. University of Arizona Bulletin 192. Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
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