King of Lead Mine (King of Lead group; Windes Mine; Morrow Mine; Taylor Mine; Pursley Mine; Queen of Sheba claim), Cochise Head, California Mining District (Chiricahua Mining District), Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USAi

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King of Lead Mine (King of Lead group; Windes Mine; Morrow Mine; Taylor Mine; Pursley Mine; Queen of Sheba claim)	Mine
Cochise Head	- not defined -
California Mining District (Chiricahua Mining District)	Mining District
Chiricahua Mountains	Mountain Range
Cochise County	County
Arizona	State
USA	Country

A former small underground Pb-Ag-Zn-Cu-Au mine consisting of 5 patented claims (1945), located in the NE¼ sec. 18, T.16S., R.30E. (Cochise Head 7.5 minute topo map). Discovered by Mr. John C. Riggs in 1900. Produced 1924-1970. Owned by Mr. Peter Windes, Dos Cabezas, AZ (1945), and later the Cochise Mining Co.

Mineralization is comprised of complex base metal carbonates and sulfides in fault zones and in disseminate bodies in thrust blocks of Permian limestone that occurred along a contact of dolomitic limestone and a flow of grey rhyolite which, as it neared the limestone, turned schistose. This contact seen as part of the visible mineral casing, strikes easterly and dips toward the north at 55° or thereabouts. Ore from shaft reportedly occurred in quartzite beds in the limestone formation. The Pb-Zn mineralization now visible occurs mostly 40 feet above the back of the lower tunnel and carries up to a cropping extending eastward in tunnel No.1.

Faulting, directly affecting the mineral trend, is found in a porphyritic dike cutting across the westerly strike of the contact vein. Also, there is evidence of flat or slight dipping formation on which the ore zone may rest and be cut in its expected downward deposition by a limestone strata.

Local structures include Bisbee Group and Glance Coglomerate lie south and west of the mine., dipping S to SW. Thrust block is bounded on the NW side by NE-trending normal fault directly NW of the mine.

Workings include tunnels on two or more levels and a vertical shaft 340 feet deep, sunk about 1903. The upper adit is 850 feet long, almost due E-W, driven by the Cochise Mining Co. in 1916 to 1918. This adit followed a small ore vein in black lime, the vein dipping 60° to 70°N. There were a few short cross cuts from the adit and a few stopes above them. Another adit, about 250 feet long, is on the west slope of the mountain. It is inaccessible and shows some copper mineralization and pyrite. A third, short (about 50 feet) adit, which is also inaccessible, was driven across a quartzite bed. The dump from it shows good indications of copper with traces of gold. The lower tunnel has a circuitous drift with exploratory sections. It continues a bit further and then bends to the left and has several exploratory cross cuts. No ore was noted in this tunnel (Macfarlane 1945). A total of about 360 tons of ore were produced between 1927 and 1970.

Hand sorted rich galena ore yielded 50% to 70% Pb and upward of 100 ounces Ag per ton.

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