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margin-bottom: 1em">By Rolf Luetcke</h2> <div class="blogpara"> <div id="actual"> Small Unnamed Prospect in the Chiricahua Mountains<br/> By Rolf Luetcke<br/> <br/> <br/> There is a small, unnamed mine near the town of Portal, on the East side of the Chiricahua Mountains in Southeastern Arizona. I discovered the place while driving up the dirt road from Portal to the small town of Paradise Arizona. The entrance to Cave Creek canyon from Portal is one of the most beautiful scenes in all of Arizona, at least in my opinion. Driving up the road to Paradise there is plenty of scenery to look at since the mountains on one side of the road are very steep and rocky with more desert like plants growing. The other side, toward the south is quite a distance away and much higher with trees and bushes covering the hillside and high rocky cliffs at the top. It is typical for the southern Arizona mountains to have south facing slopes, which get much sunshine, to have sparse and more desert like vegetation. The north facing slopes can be totally different since they don’t get nearly as much sunshine to have more vegetation and often quite different than the south facing slopes in the species of plants found. I have seen this in Bisbee, where I lived for many years, the slopes vary quite a bit. When on top of the Mule Mountains one can look into the distance and see the division between north and south facing slopes easily. <br/> There is one small mine right as you start on the Paradise dirt road near Portal which has a mine dump visible from the main dirt road on the North side of the road. The side road to this mine is now gone and one trip I parked by the main road and walked the several hundred yards to this small mine. There was something odd at this mine, on a cold winter day, warm air was coming out from inside the mountain at the mine entrance. The air coming out was 20 degrees or more warmer than the outside air and quite moist. I always wondered if there was a hot spring back in the mine or at least some venting going on from deep in the mountain. The mine dump was composed mostly of small limestone pieces taken from the mine. I looked at the dumps closely but saw no mineralization except for calcite. I had a flash light along but when I got to the mine entrance I saw something which kept me from going inside. The moist dirt at the entrance was a mass of animal tracks and this is where my biological background came in. I saw the small cleft hoof depressions going in and out, the last ones going in. I knew from their shape and size the tracks were from javalina, the desert wild pigs. They are shy and not aggressive, unless they have young or are trapped and have to run toward one to escape. I had quite a few close encounters with javalina over the years, none that I considered dangerous. Here at this mine I decided to not go into the mine since I knew from the tracks that the javalina had last gone in and were probably inside the mine for the warmth. This is also why I never did find out what made for such warmth and moisture.<br/> I heard later, when I stopped to visit a friend who ran the biological field station near Portal in Cave Creek, that two women had gone into the mine to look for bats to see which species were hibernating in the mine and didn’t observe the tracks at the entrance. They were fortunate when they did encounter the javalina inside and the animals ran toward them to escape the two gals hugged the wall of the mine tunnel and the javalina only ran by to escape without even touching them. On top of that, one gal had put her arm out to brace against the wall of the mine tunnel and felt something cold and squishy. She moved her hand immediately and when the javalina had run by she swung her light and it was a coiled rattlesnake hibernating on the ledge. Neither of the gals was hurt but it could have been a much more serious situation if they had been attacked or the one bitten by the rattlesnake. I asked them that since they were biologists, why didn't they see the tracks at the entrance and know there were pigs inside. They just didn't notice, bats were apparently on their minds. The javalina are known to fight with dogs and other animals that come for them and cut them to pieces with their long and sharp tusks. If the gals had run, they would not have been able to outrun the javalinas and the story would have had a much different outcome. At the Desert Museum in Tucson, a tourist saw a javalina in the open by the trail and went over to pet it and the javalina, being wild, attacked him and severely injured the man. He was a foreign visitor and thought the animal was a pet at the park. There were even signs stating that wild animals often come onto the property from the unfenced wild near the park and not to approach any animals. They can severely injure a person if they feel threatened.<br/> Since there was nothing to collect at this mine I moved on. About 4 or 5 miles farther west the canyon narrowed and the dirt road went through a spot where the north side of the hills came right down to the road. On the south side was a small dirt road that went down to the canyon and a spot to camp or hike. Right at this spot there was a small dirt road that went up a very steep hill several hundred yards to a couple of small mine dumps to the north. Since this was my first time here I had only a two wheel drive vehicle along and I climbed the steep road on foot and saw it was quite rough to attempt to drive, even with a 4 wheel drive vehicle. The mine was small and the dumps were composed of mostly white quartz with quite a bit of copper mineral color showing in many of the quartz chunks. I saw green, blue and metallics in the overburden on the dumps. The shaft was at the top of the road and trail and surrounded by an old barbed wire fence. The shaft was dug into the hard limestone and quartz layer and looked solid but there was no way into the mine since it was a vertical shaft and I turned to look at the dumps. The mine had followed a mineralized quartz seam into the mountain. Many mines have a layer of soil the miners went through but here it was solid rock and it was safe to look into the hole. I did drop a rock or two to see how deep the mine went but from the bouncing around the rocks did it was hard to tell how deep the mine went. Since it was a steep climb I didn’t carry a flashlight to look down into the shaft.<br/> On returning home a study found the mine had an interesting chemistry with elements I had not found at a lot of places. The mines name is an unnamed Zn-Pb-Ag-Cu-Sb-Cd prospect and from the chemistry one could see the potential for some interesting minerals. When I first collected at the mine I took home a number of chunks of the white quartz with copper colors showing and when broken at home I found well crystalized minerals. They were small but in the pockets in the quartz had formed nice crystals. At this time the list of minerals from this small mine on mindat was quite short only showing six minerals. There were no photographs of anything from here on the mindat page. The history of the mine was sketchy and little information on dates and what quantities of ore were removed was written. From the estimate of the size of the dumps, they thought the mine about 200 feet in depth. It seems to have been just another of the small prospects that dot the area that quickly pinched out of ore and didn’t turn into a producing mine.<br/> After visiting the mine numerous times I was able to find 27 different minerals and another dozen things I couldn’t identify. Most of these things were well crystalized and I was able to add to the list on mindat and add photos of much of what I had found. Here is a list of the minerals we have found at the mine. Azurite, tetrahedrite, rosasite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, pyrite, galena, calcite, quartz, covellite, smithsonite, wulfenite, anglesite, aurichacite, chrysocolla, malachite, cuproromeite, oxyplumboromeite, cerussite, goethite, acanthite, hematite, cuprite, hemimorphite, hawleyite, devilline and phosphohedyphane. Some unidentified specimens hint at turquoise, stibiconite or bindheimite, garnet, limonite, chlorargyrite and more. The tetrahedrite we found in nice crystals and the smithsonite in a number of colors and crystal habits. The azurite is small but the crystals long and bright. At one time it was assumed because of the lead at the mine that the blue was actually linarite but acid testing showed it to be azurite. I have run into this before where linarite was listed as coming from a mine and after hundreds of acid tests, no linarite was ever found and I assume a visual identification by someone had led to this mistake. I have often found azurite in long, bladed crystals that resemble linarite. One other small prospect in the Chiricahua Mountains did prove to have linarite crystals but that prospect is so small that very little was ever found there.<br/> I assume from the dumps that what the original miners were after was the main seam of metallic mineralization and they didn’t want any of the marginal mineralization. The dumps are not large but what was there had small spots of color which often had better material inside when broken up. <br/> At different times I took different vehicles to the area and one attempt to get up with a 4 wheel drive didn’t add much to the distance one had to carry ore down and with no place to turn around, backing up was not fun. One trip with an ATV made it nearly to the dumps but even with its capability it was still too steep and rough to get right to the dumps. I visited the mine probably a dozen times over the years after I first found it and have a nice suite of minerals from this small location. One of my favorite finds was a small pocket which had long, pyramidal wulfenite crystals and on the side of a wulfenite were small azurite crystals growing on the wulfenite. Another favorite find was a fish tail twinned azurite cluster. I have never been able to get a decent photograph of this cluster since it is a dark blue in pure white quartz. Several other specimens are right up there in favorites since the smithsonite is not only in nice crystals but also tinted various colors by impurities. The tetrahedrite crystals I found here, even though they are only a few millimeters across, are the nicest I have collected in Arizona. There are also a number of replacements going on at the mine and several other minerals have replaced original tetrahedrite by the romeite group minerals, described well in the Mineralogy of Arizona.<br/> In more recent times there was a sign that appeared at the bottom of the small road to the mine that said “no trespassing”. With research it was found the mine was close to private land but was on national forest land and thus public land and access could not be halted. The forest service was contacted and they found also that the mine was on public land. This is a situation due to more people moving into the area and building homes along the hills and trying to keep others away. On the main dirt road you come to a sign that you are on national forest land before you get to the mine but there are small parcels of private land here and there into the national forest. The hardest thing is to determine which property is private and which is public. Often finding out the access to mines is a very difficult process. One example was a mine near Tombstone where I had collected for over 35 years. Then one day a ranger stopped and said the property was off limits to collecting. Seems there had been a land swap a few years prior but no signs pointing this out had been put up. The excuse was that the signs were often shot up or stolen. Not good for someone who had collected at a place for years and then something changed and the general public never hears about it. Even the ranger had to call his home office to find where the boundary ran. Putting a sign on a road is not always an indication that the land is private but finding the exact information on the land is often very hard. Even the forest service often doesn’t know the exact boundaries of a piece of land. There are tenacious people who keep posting public land to keep people out and there is no bite in the law to keep this from happening. I recall a particular area had a fence and gate and the land was public but the gate was repeatedly locked and it was a running battle to keep the land open. Some of the old west attitudes are still alive in the area and it is best to be careful since the people in the area usually carry guns.<br/> Over the years this small prospect has been a very nice place to collect. It is not like some of the mines we have visited where you have shafts to enter or overhangs that can fall but in this case the dumps are out in the open and when you tire of pounding rocks the scenery is unsurpassed. <br/> We don’t know if the mine still has things to offer we have not yet discovered in the dumps, we have not been to the location in a few years now. I have several boxes of specimens from this small prospect and get them out occasionally to see if my identification knowledge has improved over the last year or two. I have not taken the unknown specimens to have them analyzed since the cost is prohibitive and often there was only one example of an unknown and specimens can be damaged or ruined by testing.<br/> There are other small mines in the district and the small town of Paradise has an interesting history. Apparently when the west was wild, places like Tombstone and Bisbee were tamed and law and order took over. Paradise was far enough from civilization at that time that it became a hangout for many of the outlaws that had been driven out of the larger towns. I remember reading that even the law was hesitant in going to Paradise to enforce any laws since there were many places for the outlaws to hide and escape. Gun battles in this rugged terrain were not something lawmen looked forward to. The Apaches were also still in the area and Paradise was pretty much left alone.<br/> Paradise still has people living there to this day and the old mining town and mines that were there are on private land and off limits to visiting or collecting. The Chiricahua mountains are a very scenic place to visit and still quite wild. Only one main dirt road crosses the mountains and in winter is closed to travel. Summer is nice for camping and hiking in many places and there are still some small mines that I have never been able to find.<br/> On the north side of the mountains I have tried to locate the mine called the Pine-Zinc mine and have never been able to locate the mine. I have tried on several occasions to find it but the steep and rugged terrain has always stopped me from actually finding the mine. The literature shows many tons of material were removed from there but nothing in the way of mine dumps could be found. A friend also took up the search and never found anything and he was all over the area the mine was supposed to be. I have a suspicion that the Pine-Zinc mine listed on mindat with a large amount of ore supposedly mined was possibly switched with a different mine in the vicinity or mistakenly reported for a location that really didn't produce any material to speak of. Some of the smaller mines and prospects have little written about them and it is often hard to find any information on what was mined and when. The Chiricahua Mountains and its many mines have always been a favorite place for us to visit. The famous Hilltop Mine is also in this range but access to this mine has changed in recent years. The roads were washed out from severe storms and a locked gate issue has stopped access to the Hilltop recently. It appears to be a situation seen in most places people have collected in the past, the access in today's time is much more restricted.<br/> Over my years in Arizona I have found the small prospects and mines that have no names can have interesting minerals and since they were never seriously mined for ore, much has been left on the dumps. The fact that the mines are in hard to get to areas have helped to leave things there for rock hounds to find. The small mine near Portal is one of a handful of places I have on my favorites list. 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