A small former surface and underground Au-Ag-Cu-Fe mine located in the center of sec. 36, T1S, R23W (protracted), about 6 miles ESE of Cibola on the NW slope of the Trigo Mountains. Started in the early 1890's.
Owned at times by Mexican operators and Hardt.

Mineralization is a vein deposit with spotty, high-grade gold and minor silver, with banded quartz, iron oxides, ferruginous calcite, pyrite crystals and bunches, in cavities and fracture fillings along a fault zone cutting Mesozoic schists striking 55°W and dipping 65°E, intruded by granite porphyry dikes. Other similar deposits 2 miles to the South.

The lode is comprised of narrow, branching quartz veins which occupy fault zones in schist. Schists which strike SSE and weather green to yellowish-gray, are intruded by a few narrow dikes of granite porphyry. The vein occurs in a fault zone that cuts schists in a S5W direction and dips 65ºE at the surface, but steepens somewhat in depth. The outcrop vein is 8 inches (20 cm) wide and about 300 feet long. The vein consists of banded, dense, white quartz in which numerous fractures and cellular cavities are filled with limonite, hematite and ferruginous calcite.

Workings include an inclined shaft reportedly 140 feet deep on the dip and several shallow cuts. Worked sporadically in in the early to late 1890's and again in the 1930's. Produced a few thousand dollars of gold (period values) before 1900.

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GeoNames ID:	5297440
Link to USGS MRDS:	10102453
Link to USGS MRDS:	10137773

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