Elma Mine (Central Mine; Tout group), Central Copper Co. group, Dos Cabezas, Dos Cabezas Mining District (Two Heads Mining District), Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USAi

Regional Level Types
Elma Mine (Central Mine; Tout group)	Mine
Central Copper Co. group	- not defined -
Dos Cabezas	- not defined -
Dos Cabezas Mining District (Two Heads Mining District)	Mining District
Dos Cabezas Mountains	Mountain Range
Cochise County	County
Arizona	State
USA	Country

A former small underground Cu-Au-Ag-Mo-Fe mine located in the center of sec. 9, T.14S., R.27E, about 18 miles E of Wilcox, AZ, on private land. Owned at times, or in part, by the Central Copper Co. and the Tout, Arivaca (Aztec) Mining Co.

Mineralization is irregular, frequently massive, magnetite and sulfides in a pyrometasomatic pipe-like body along a strong shear and fault zone cutting brecciated and metamorphosed Paleozoic limestone and Laramide rhyolite and granitic intrusive rock. The ore zone is 106.68 meters long and 30.48 meters wide. Mineralization includes copper oxide(s).

Workings include a shaft at 137.16 meters deep. The workings have at least four levels, the upper levels were at the 40, 113, and 163 foot depths. There was considerable stoping above the 163 foot level workings - about 5,000 feet of workings total length. Ore assayed at 3.71-5% Cu. At least 8,000 tons of ore were produced intermittently from the late 1910's to the late 1960's. The ore was trammed to the Mascot Mine, Mascot District (now included in this district) 2 miles S. A 10,600 foot aerial tramway was operated in 1957 by Utex Exploration Co.

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Link to USGS MRDS:	10027109

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