Mine Tales: Frontier mining site of Ryan is one of Arizona's least known
By William Ascarza Special to the Arizona Daily Star Ryan is both one of Arizonaâs frontier mining sites and one of its least known, seldom written about or visited. Exploration of the Warm Springs Canyon area north of Buckskin Mountain near Jacob Lake in Coconino County began in the 1890s. Prospectors identified limonite-stained cherty sandstone fragments on the surface, indicating veins of copper mineralization around Lambâs Lake, later known as the Petoskey Claims. Local geology included copper ore bodies distributed along northeast-southwest trending fractures occurr...
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