| Location: | Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 31.62457, -110.82262 |
| dep_id: | 10046336 |
| mrds_id: | M241322 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Lead, Silver, Copper |
| Minor mineral: | Zinc, Gold |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite |
| gangue: | Barite, Calcite, Quartz |
| orebody_fm: | TABULAR |
| work_type: | Underground |
| alteration: | Lode Consists Mainly Of Crushed And Altered Country Rock, Some Of It Altered To Kaolin |
| conc_proc: | Oxidized Near The Surface With Enrichment In Argentiferous Cerussite |
| ore_ctrl: | Ore Seams, Shoots And Stringers In 25 Ft. Lode Within Quartz Monzonite |
| Reporter: | Laraba, Peter (Calder, Susan), Orris, Greta J. |
| hrock_unit: | Piper Gulch Monzonite |
| hrock_type: | Quartz Monzonite |
| arock_unit: | Squaw Gulch Granite |
| arock_type: | Granite |
| Structure: | Ne - Trending Quartz Fissure Veins Cutting Quartz Monzonite And Along Contact Between Monzonite And Nearby Rhyolite Intrusions, Quartz Monzonite Is Intruded And Overlain By Rhyolite In Vicinity |
| tectonic: | Mount Wrightson Fault Block |
| Year first produced: | 1912 |
| yr_lst_prd: | 1951 |
| disc_yr: | 1906 |
| discr: | George Clark And J. Peterson |
| References: |
- Deposit:: USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA.
- Deposit:: USBM-FILE DATA-CLUSTER #118, AMERICAN BOY MINE.
- Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE DATA, AMERICAN BOY MINE.
- Deposit:: ADMR FILE DATA, AMERICAN BOY MINE.
- Deposit:: USGS BULL 582, P. 229-230.
- Deposit:: ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 88.
- Deposit:: BLM DISTRICT SHEET #687.
- Deposit:: ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH.
- Deposit:: USGS MAP I-614
- Deposit:: USGS PP 748, P. 14-15
- Deposit:: ROHRBACHER, ROBERT G., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE TEMPORAL GULCH-MANSFIELD CANYON AREA, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, P. 69-70.
- Other Database:: CIMRI
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