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Abe Lincoln Mine

Past Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027576
MRDS ID M003408
Record type Site
Current site name Abe Lincoln Mine
Related records 10186537

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.54213, 34.04562 (WGS84)
Elevation 1183
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 14 MILES BY ROAD NE OF WICKENBURG.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morgan Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bradshaw Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Agua Fria(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 008N 003W 11 S2 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Uranium Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE SURROUNDING AREA MAY CONTAIN MINABLE LOW-GRADE U.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Fluorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor To None

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES FROM DUMPS: 0.46 % U.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.54213, 34.04562
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Foliation In Precambrian Shcist And Gneiss Trends N25e To N65e
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins (And Genetically-Related (?)) Dikes Trend N10w To N40w And Crosscut Precambrian Fabric

Ore body information

  • Strike N 50 E
    Dip 84 NW
    Width 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing, Igneous Activity - Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS HIGH-ANGLE QUARTZ VEIN WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH RHYOLITE OR ANDESITE DIKES OF PROBABLE MID-TERTIARY (PALEOCENE-MIOCENE) AGE THAT CUT PRECAMBRIAN IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS. THE INSTRUSIVE ROCKS ARE UNDATED, BUT PROBABLY 1750 MILLION YEARS AND OLDER.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Black Rock District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • NO U PRODUCTION TO 1962

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 960.12M
    Overall depth 201.17M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GRANGER, H.C., AND RAUP, R.B., 1962 , RECONNAISSANCE STUDY OF URANIUM DEPOSITS IN ARIZONA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1147-A, P. 45.

  • Deposit

    VAN ALSTINE, R.E., AND MOORE, R.T., 1969, FLUORSPAR, IN ABM BULLETIN 180, USGS BULLETIN 871, P. 354.

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA MINING JOURNAL, 1918, V. 2, NO. 7, P. 6-8.

  • Deposit

    ELEVATORSKI, E.A., 1971, ARIZONA FLUORSPAR, ARIZONA DMR, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 5651, P. 19-24.

  • Deposit

    PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERAL CARD FILES.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS IN FAULT ZONE.
Deposit OPENED IN 1917 AS A COPPER PROSPECT, PRODUCING A SMALL AMOUNT OF COPPER ORE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-79 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-81 Laraba, Peter (Dewitt, Ed) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-SEP-91 Carbonaro, Marguerite M. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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