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07/13/87

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA

PRIMARY NAME: HOSEY

ALTERNATE NAMES: AUGUSTA PRESIDENTIAL EXPOSED REEF

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY MILS NUMBER: 15A

LOCATION: TOWNSHIP 21 S RANGE 1~ E SECTION 7 QUARTER NE LATITUDE: N 31DEG 37MIN 37SEC LONGITUDE: W 110DEG 50MIN 42SEC TOPO MAP NAME: MT WRIGHTSON - 15 MIN

CURRENT STATUS: PAST PRODUCER

COMMODITY: LEAD COPPER SILVER ZINC GOLD

BIBLIOGRAPHY: KEITH, S.B., 1975, INDEX OF MINING PROP. IN

SANTA CRUZ CO. USBM FIELD NOTES CU41 AZBM CARD FILE SANTA CRUZ CO. SCHRADER, F.C., 1915, USGS BULL. 582,

P. 230-231 ADMMR HOSEY FILE

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HOS8Y SANTA CRUZ COUNTY

MG WR 5/1/87: Mr. Russ Corn has staked the Mountain View group over the old Hosey mine (file) Santa Cruz County. He suggests this property may have gold potential associated with an identified porphyry copper environment, including tourmalinized breccia pipes.

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HOSEY MINE

USGS Bullo 582 p. 230

Production Possibilities of the Marginal Copper Mines in Arizona, 1941, po 99

Arizona Mining Journal, 12/1/22, p. 18

History of Mining in Arizona, ABM p. 318

A BM Bull. 1 91, p. 89

USGS PP 748, p. 11-12

Mt. Wrightson 7.5 (included in file)

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;/ Mr~ John A. McDonald Estacion Moreno Sonora) Mexloo

Dear Mr~ McDonald:

1 have tho questionne.:i.re 'ohtrb you sent us :rega:r~i:ng the Hosey MIne, It would appear t hat your property woul d quul ify for inclut3ion in ourre})Qrt of poten.tial oopper })l'oduGsrs. I would ·t ~:l.ke it from :)Tour report that you -~rou· l· 'i h !!:lIW/.:l\ ~~ .il'. r: ~ .o:t·. 81' 1' '"11)1'. 11"" ·O""~' 1" h,~' t .n" '1j~' d -r>/'.~ '- ' ,,'; r'.fo, lin -tr":' -Q't lJI'I L"'n ,l- D . .L"> "..>·n~ ~, , \ J.f;'JL "}I"v· ~ ~-L ' co ... . . J. .5::' t~: .. · J., \:) VJ.,u, ':J l·-.JI",A . ..... ~ .... ·v\.1.\...t.,;.. Ii~} · """': \~twl ;i.u V · ..i.. q . 'U~

as you have not included 'that in 'tIle eEtJ?l't a'q.. investrn8nt. 3: do feel sure;; hOW'EY'il'(~r, that yOl'l have not included ~l suffic,i ent tllilOtllJ't ~ as yO'll would have to have tools aXid m~obinf)ry in Cll'chn1 to extra ct enough ore to produce 750.-000 pO"ll1tds of COPl} \:? l~. \

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Included within this report we 3nti cipate putting a brief desoription Qf' the propt)rties 'which vil ll b t? listed. as poterr'Cit'll producers.. In order to he:v6 thes6 brief reIJorts unif'orn.l in their contents v.:e '::l&Ve gotten up anothl..~:.r

questionnaire showing the points 'we want to cover, a.nd it; 1,,\]il1 be gret:ttly appr,3ciated if you vrill fill in BUD oi' . these cd.Uestioll~1aires lor the Hosey c-lli.€l\::fGturn it to us ..

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t~Phanking you o ill1.U wit~h i<:ina.ofyt IJersonal regards, I am

Chairrn,an, Board of Go'Vernors Arlzona. Departmont of' Min;:jral Resources

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"DEPARTMENT O~ .M ,INERAL RESOURCES STATE OF ARIZONA

FIELD ENGINEERS REPORT

/ (also called Augusta) Date Oct. 9, 1957

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District Wrightson District, Santa Cruz Co 0 Engineer Axel L. Johnson

Subject: Field Engineers ~port.

Reference~ Schraders RePort,

Information :from John A. McEona1d. /

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Bull. 582, . Pages 230 & 231. --

No visit.

Location About 15 miles N. of Patagonia in the Santa Rita Mts. Take road north of Patagonia, known as the Mansfield Mine road, and drive about 11 miles, going past the Mansfield Mine. Walk or ride horseback the remaining 4 miles to the mine 0

Number of Claims 2 unpatented claims. Owner originally held 12 claims. Assessment has been kept up on the 2 claims only.

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Owner John A. McDonald, Box 812, Patagonia, Ariz. / 'v/

Principal Minerals Copper and Silver.

Present Mining Activity. None. Mine is idleo -{

Geology & Mineralization

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See Schraders Report (Bull. 582) pages 230 & 231.

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iV1r. McDonald reports an .. average .of 9 to . lO %. copper. & shipments of 6 to 18 %. Milling and Marketing Facil::\.ties None. No road into the property. Can drive wn:thin 4 miles of the prQpertyo Balance of the way (4 Miles) has to be made by foot or horseback.

Past Histo;y and Production See Schraders report (Bull. 582)--pages 230 , 231. Mr. McDonald reports that the property was las~ worked in

1920, and that a total of 8,000 tons of ore was shipped from this property. This ore ran from 6 to 18 % copper, with 1 Oz. of Silver to each per cent of copper. Vein,' wide.

Old Mine Workings According to Mr. McDonald: (1) 1 vertical shaft -- 300 ito deep in barren ground. Shaft is in good

shape, but is full of water. Needs dewatering, .but very little repair. (2) 1 incl. shaft (incl.75 deg) ---- about 200 ft. deep (Schrader says 215')

with a few hundred feet of drifts and cross cuts on the 100 & 200 ft. levels. 'I'his shaft, with the drifts am cross cuts,UIIX is all caved in, and the old stapes and workings where the past ore production came from ia are also caved in and inaccessible.

Proposed Plans Mr. McDonald claims there is good ore below the old workings, which extended down only 200 ft. He states that the collar of the 300 ft. vertical shaft is 50 ft. lower than the collar of the caved in inclined shaft. Consequently,a drift from the bottom of the 300 ft. vertical shaft would be about 150 ft. below the old workings, allowing for the stoping of 150 ft. of the vein, and hoisting same up the vertical shaft. Mr. McDonald estimates that from 100 ft. to 150 ft. of drifting would be required to get under the old workings.

Mr. MCDonald would like to lease out the property to some party, who is in a position to do this work. He will give a lease, providing for 10 % royalty on net smelter returns, with the option to b~. A time limit would be specified in the lease.

JOIDIJ A. McDONALD Moreno, Sonora, Mexico.

october 30, 1942.

Mr. Earl Fl. Hastings, Assistant Director ru1d Projects Engineer, Department Of Mineral Resources, sta tes of Arizona, 413 Home Builders Bldg., Phoenix, Arizona.

Dear Mr. Hastings:

Replying to your letter of October 29, I am sorry to say that we .do not have any maps of the Hosel mine nor any reports left.

At onetime we did have a map of the mine and most of the smelt­er return sheets for the ore that was shipped from there, but these were passed on to different parties for the purpose of interesting them in the property and eventually were lost.

Although I doubt if what information I could give you on the ground would suffice to interest, anyone, still I will write you what I know about it and would be willing to give almost any kind of reason.able terms to anyone who would be willing to investigate it.

To begin with, there are twelve (12) claims about 12 miles north of Patagonia in the Santa Rita Mountains, which form the Hosey group, and my mother and 'myself own the property. There was a fairly go od road to the mine and th.is road is open yet to within about 4 miles from there., which latter part is badly washed out.

The old workings from which most all of the ore, amounting to about 8,000 tons running from about 6% to 17.5% copper and carrying from 8 t ,o 25 ounces in silver varying with the amount of copper, . consist of an incline shaft on the main vein which reached a depth of 260 feet and about 750 or 800 feet of drifting along the ve:in on the 100 and 200 foot levels; there was also some stoping done above the 100 foot level as well as some done between these two levels. 1'he se workings are all caved in now, however, and I doubt if it would be worth while opening them up again.

'Ilhe format ion around the mine has beea t ,ermed Rhyolite and the vein appears to be a true fissure vein ani can be traced along the surface for perhaps a mile, or maybe more.

'rhe ore that we shipped from there occurred in l.enzes and was not regular nor continuous, ~ut these lenzes occurred in streaks

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of from a few inches wide to as high as 8 feet wide in places and there was a streak of iron pyrites within the vein that did seem to be continuous and this streak which ran from about 18 inches to 3-1/2' feet wide carried as high as 3% copper in the lower workings and judging from the way the values increased as we went down I have an idea_ that this streak of pyrites may become commercial ore with a li ttle more depth.

After these old workings caved in we sank a new perpendicular shaft about 300 feet so uth of the main ve in to a depth of 320 feet and started to crosscut to the vein on the 300. foot level. 'fhis work was given up before the vein was reached and some years lat er when I was away, sane pe ople from Los Angele S 00-watered the mine am oontinued the crosscut and I have reasons to believe that they cut . thro ugh the main vein and went on. to another small vein that occurs about 100 feet north of the main vein and did som.e drifting on this latter stringer.

This new shaft lies on the opposite side of the canyon from the old workings and somewha~ east of them' and where the crosscut hit the vein it would be almost directly beneath this canyon and the ve in seems to have been faulted by the canyon and car­ried no appreciable values there as our workings from the old shaft showed.

This new shaft is full of water, but should be 1a good condition as it was well timbered, was not operated very long and the rest of the t . ime it has been full of w~ter almo st to the collar so I think. it v.o uld be in good condition yet.

We had some of t he water analyzed,Jfrom the old workings and ' it contained nearly 1% copper and this, too, helps to make one believe there rray be a body of copper ore there if the mine were developed.

Aside from the mai n vein there are several othe.r vei n on the property am up on the higher ground there has been some high grade lead ore found in several places, some of which also carried considerable silver values.

As for the ype of deal we would grant, we would be willing to take $ 2·:5000.00 for it, under more or less the following terms: say $'OOQ-.OO at the end of a year, $ 100000 00 more at the end of 18 months and the balance at the end of two

'years with 10% royalty on smelter returns which can be applied on purchase price.

As for equipment, there are two boilers, two steam hoists and . one steam compressor at the mine and these California people left a brand new putjlp in the mine when they shut down.

Some of the parts have been taken off the machinery and the fuel

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(wood) is rather scarce there now, so I have an idea that if anything were done there it would be almost necessary to install some new equipment.

Hoping this information. will be of some use to you and thanking you for your inquiry, I am

Yours Very Truly,

JAMcD:lb

Mine

District

Subject:

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I.Jf:PARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOUt-{CES STATE OF ARIZONA

FIELD ENGINEERS REPORT

Date September 23, 1942

Wrightson, Santa Engineer George A. Ballam

Production Possibility Survey

The Hosey, formerly knolNn as the Augu{~a, also pres~ential, consists of 12 patented claims i~ihe Santa Ri tas just north of Patagonia. Ow-ned since 1941 by John A. McDonald, Estacion Moreno, .sonora, Mexico. Not operated at present.

Topography is mountainous. Country rock quartz-monzonite cut by rhyolite dykes with which veins are associated. Ore Siliceous, carrying considerable pyrite. Values in copper and Silver, former mainly as chalcopyrite.

Inclined shaft on main Hosey vein 265' with 750' development. Newer vertical shaft 300' south, dovrn 320' wi·th station and some X-cutting, purpose being to cut north to Hosey vein and south to larger vein not developed.

8,000 tons ore reported shipped averaging 1$% eu and varying from 10 to ]0 OZ8 • . A.g. On 240' level 9' ore of this grade just as broken. From 1906-28, 960,000 pounds copper produced.

y '" Has been described by Frank C. Schrader, U.S.G.S. Bulletin #-582, (19l6) pp 230-231.

Some time ago in talking to Walter 3im {Pearce} in Patagonia, the Hosey was mentioned as a property which should be going. This morning he in­formed me that he had a tentative deal with McDonald to be closed in a day or 80. He wants a loan to unwater and will put one of his own men in charge. Has much of eQuipment availa~le. Deal proposed seems to be satisfactory to both parties, royalty on sliding scale.

(Signed) George A. Ballarn

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:Arizona Departm ant of Mineral Resources t Capitol Building, Phoenix, Arizona

QUEST IONNAlRE Relating to survey pf potential copperprodu9tion from Arizona small and marginal

mines for . national defense purposes; . Hosey I .,, ' . ' . .'

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Copper production (pounds) during each of the past five years: Not in production during these years~

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:From 1906 to 1928 , it produced about ,960,000 pounds of con oer. 193<d •••• ' •••••••••••••••••••••• ·1940 •••••••••• e"............ ... ..... J.;.

, . 1941 rate of copper production based upon first four months ••••••••••••••••••••••

How much copper could this property produce 8!!-l1ually

ryr::;o 000 lb ~. . ' on a 14 cent price? .''' •• , •••••••• ~ •••••••••

on a 16 cent price? J.29P.Q,QQP •• ~~f3.· ••••••.

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on a 20 cent price? ~2 99.Q,QQP. );Q~ ........ . 14 What price copper is necessary for this property? •••••••••••••••••• cents per pound?

What plant facilities would be required and how much is the estimated cost in the

e.vent a 14 cent price could be assured? • J.~ .. v~9 p)..o. .t~[-J.4~:r~ .• 9 .PPF.~~. p)..ql)~ t. J'.llEl.

cost would be ' abo ut 20 000.00 dollars. . . t ... .. 0 • 0 00 ••••••••••••••••• 0 • , •••••••••••• 0 •••• Q • 0 ••••••••••• " ••••••••••• 0 ••••••••••••••

? 16 cent pri ce coul·d be assured? •••••••••••••••••••••..•••••••••••••••• , ••••••••••

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r:~r what length of time would assurance of price and sale of full production be ne-

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How Idhg would it take; after financing has been provided for, before production on "

t he above basi 8 could be rea chad? .:1-• .r~Q.p:tJ.q , ...................................... .

Doesyourorganizationhav6 ' thefacilities for raising the necessary capital to in-

crease production to the amount stated? •• NQ, ........................ , ••...•.••••. '.

If not, do you believe that your company would be amenable and agreeable to govern-

mont financing? ••••• ¥~P.~ ............... a.~ •••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••

'Do you believo that you could finance the capital investment, yourself on some 81 ah

basis as Q gur~nntee of sale of output et a fixed price und for a definite period,

wi th drunngos to cover unamortized portion of capital investment, in tho event tho

government failed to take tho ou tpu t for the agreed upon time - or some' similar

tlrrnngGIIl,en t? • ., ........................................................ ,. ............ .

flanse let us have your comments on tho probability or possibility of your organi-

zGtion participating in such a program for nntioncl defense purposes~ ••••••••••••••

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Whnt would be your ideas on financing and carrying out such n pIon us is indicated

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~indly list names and addressos of other potontial coppor producers in ~izonn mhosG

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John i'... McDonst ld.

' /~ , . Af.!J..!t~;;.~ , LJE:PARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOu~icE5 I,' , Htf:.:~" .~"",:, .' . !~'~"O;~"''''''1' "

STATE OF ARIZONA ;;" ,~". , t~ .... .-,,~... . ,

FIELD ENGINEERS REPORT /1> . I"S~O ' t/~}J~~S' !L ~''*Q .r:-A ' ~ "J -1 '

~\~V!~',: .... ~ 1,9:t?- / Mine Hosey Mini" Date sept 23, 1942 "'",,,~, II/I ; ,

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District Wrightson, Santa Cruz Co. Engineer George A. Ballam ...... , ... ~J

Subject: Production Possi bili ty Survey

/ t/r V' The HO~y, formerly known as the Augusta, also Presidential, consists

of 12 papented o~~ims in the Santa Ritas just north of Patagonia. Owned since 194' by John A. NfcDonals, Estaoion Moreno, Sonora, Mex. Not operated at present.

Topography is mountainous. Country rock quartz-monzonite cut by rhyolite dykes with which veins~re assoc~ated. Ore si1ioeous, carrying considerable pyrite. Values in copper and silver, former mainly as chalcopyrite.

Inclined shaft on main Ifosey vein 265' with 750' development. Newer vertical shaft 300' south,down 320' with station and some X-cutting, ' purpose being to cut north to Hosey vein and south to larger vein not developed.

8000 tons ore reported shipped averaging 18% Cu and varying from 10 to 30 oz~. A~on. 240 t level 9' ore of this grade just as broken. From 1906-28,960,:OOQliOpper produced.

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Has been described by Frank: C. Schrader, U.S.G.S. Bulletin 11582, (1916) PI> 230-231.

Some time ago in talking to Walter Sim (Pearce) in Patagonia, the Hosey was mentioned as a property which should be going. This AM he informed me that he had a tentative deal with MCDonald to be closed in a day or so. He wants a loan to unwater and will put one of his own mlm in charge. Has much of equipment available. Deal proposed seems to be satisfactory to both parties, rOJ~lty on sliding seale.