Connecticut Mine

Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States

Copper Lead Silver Zinc Gold

Land & claims · BLM · live

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Surface manager + active mining claims at this point, live from BLM. The "open to location" notes are a general 1872-Mining-Law guide, not BLM output — decision-support only; verify with BLM MLRS and on the ground before staking or entry.

Commodities

PrimaryCopper, Lead, Silver

SecondaryZinc, Gold

Commodity typeMetallic

Deposit

Deposit sizeSmall

WorkingsUnderground

Orebody formTABULAR

Ore controlBands Or Stringers Along Fault Or Shear Zone Ledge In Quartz Diorite

Materials

Ore mineralsBornite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Sphalerite

Geology

Host rockDiorite

Associated rockDiorite · Josephine Canyon Diorite

StructureSw End Of Gardner Canyon Dike Swarm; Veins In Region Generally Strike E-W And Can Be Traced Only A Few 100 Ft, Seams Or Stringers Of Oxidized Ferruginous Material Concentrated Along Sheeting Planes Of Shear Zone

Tectonic settingSalero Fault Block

AlterationAt Depth, Shear Zone Ledge Is Composed Mainly Of Closely Sheeted, Sheared, And Partly Altered Diorite

Economic & production

Development statusProducer

First production1913

Last production1937

Discovery year1895

Description

R.R. Richardson

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References

USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATAUSBM-FILE DATA-CLUSTER #131, CONNECTICUT MINEUSGS BULL 582, P. 189-190ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 84ABGMT FILES STANTON B. KEITHUSGS MAP I-614USGS PP 748, P. 11-12ROHRBACHER, ROBERT G., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE TEMPORAL GULCH-MANSFIELD CANYON AREA, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, P. 65-73ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, CONNECTICUT MINE

Identification

Deposit ID10046331

MRDS IDM241260

RegionNA

Data scoreB

Coordinates31.66041, -110.86874