Sure Fire No. 1 claim (Sure Fire claim; Vanover property), Bar-LY Ranch, Redington Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USAi

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Sure Fire No. 1 claim (Sure Fire claim; Vanover property)	Claim
Bar-LY Ranch	Ranch
Redington Mining District	Mining District
Pima County	County
Arizona	State
USA	Country

‡Ref.: Wilmarth, V.R., Bauer, H.L., Jr., Staatz, M.H., and Wyant, D.G. (1952) Uranium in fluorite deposits, in Selected papers on uranium deposits in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 220: 13-18.

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MRDS database Dep. ID file #10039665, MRDS ID #M050616; and, Dep. ID #10234349, MAS ID #0040190031.

A U-Cu-Fluorspar claim/occurrence located in N½SW¼ sec. 15, T.13S., R.18E., 8½ miles S of Redington and about 30 miles ENE of Tucson. Discovered August, 1949 by Dominick Oberto & others of Tucson.

Mineralization is ore in irregular, lenticular bodies hosted in Precambrian Pinal Schist; Bolsa Quartzite; and Abrigo Limestone. Ore control: the radioactive zones appear to be elongate parallel to host rock foliation fractures. The ore body is 91.44 meters long and 3.05 meters wide with a NE strike and 40NE dip. Uranium minerals occur in veinlets and breccia fillings in schist and gneissic granite. Radioactivity is present in float, crushed zones, and fracture surfaces. Radioactive zones are weak and discontinuous. The zones have been intensely leached and their uranium content should increase downward for at least a few feet. Veinlets of fluorite, calcite, quartz, uranophane, and autunite.

The rocks on this claim are believed to be of Precambrian and Cambrian ages. Apparently the oldest rock is a gray-green schist, consisting chiefly of quartz and chlorite interlaminated with dark minerals. The foliation dips 25º to 55ºNE. It may belong to the Pinal Schist of Precambrian age. A gneissic granite that may be related to the Oracle Granite, is probably intrusive into the schist, and nearly concordant with its foliation. The granite and schist are successively overlain on the ridges by rocks that probably represent the Bolsa Quartzite and the Abrigo Limestone, both Cambrian in age. Fine-grained, dark-colored dikes cut the Precambrian rocks on this claim and cut the younger rocks in nearby areas. The dikes are hard to trace on the surface, but where exposed, they show both concordant and discordant relations to the foliation of the granite and schist.

Local structures include two prominent fractures which strike N85E and N60W, and dip 80N and 75NE, respectively.

Workings include 4 shallow prospect pits along an arroyo draining southward (A, B, C, D pits) plus the Blue Rock shaft (post-1951).

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