O.K. Mine

Past Producer in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Iron
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  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 10027787
MRDS ID M004093
Record type Site
Current site name O.K. Mine
Alternate or previous names O.K. Claims, Ok Mine
Related records 10161860

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.21664, 35.79168 (WGS84)
Elevation 1109
Relative position IN WHITE HILLS, 9 MI W OF GARNET MTN., 4 MI W OF HUALAPAI WASH, 15 MI S OF LAKE MEAD.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Basin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Boulder City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Red Lake(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

Bureau of Land Management AZ BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Mohave

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 028N 018W 22 SW4 OF NW4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • E SIDE OF WHITE HILLS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Siderite Ore
Wolframite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result IN 1909 AVG $10/T AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.21664, 35.79168

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Foliation In Granite Vertical Striking N30e

Ore body information

  • Strike N65E
    Dip 75 NW
    Width 0.46M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Veins, Ore Favors Hanging Wall, But Where Overturned Ore Is On Footwall

Comments on the geologic information

  • QUARTZ MONZONITE, APLITE AND PEGMATITE ARE 2 MILES AWAY FROM DEPOSIT. MOLYBDENITE IS ASSOCIATED WITH GALENA AND WOLFRAMITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1882
Discoverer Patterson, Rowe, & Fox

Mining district

District name Gold Basin District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Arizona-Minnesota Gold Mining Co.
    Home office Minneapolis, Mn.
    First year 1909

Comments on the production information

  • ITEM 16: INCLUDES ORE FROM O.K. AND EXCELSIOR MINES AND O.K. MILLSITE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 487.68M
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED WALTER FLECK, BARKLEY, SKOGLIE, JOHN LARLOW, MALCO GOLD MINING CO, C.L. FLECK, BEN F. GRIFFITH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, 1909, USGS BULL 397.

  • Deposit

    ELSING & HEINEMAN, 1936, ABM BULL 140.

  • Deposit

    ABM FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F., AND HILL, J., SOME OCCURRENCES OF MULYBDENITE IN SANTA RITA AND PATAGONIA MTNS., ARIZ.: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 430.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE US: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP MR-25.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    SCHRADER, 1909; AZ BU MINES FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: EARLY 1880'S
Deposit MINERALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH CRET. MASSIVE WHITE QUARTZ VEINS.
Deposit THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M004093 WITH RECORD D000780 OF JAN WILT AND J.E. ELLIOTT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE; CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1992 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Arizona resources

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