1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

United Eastern Mine

Past Producer in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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 10027910
MRDS ID M004457
Record type Site
Current site name United Eastern Mine
Alternate or previous names Tom Reed Extension
Related records 10161799

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.38469, 35.02946 (WGS84)
Elevation 866
Relative position LOCATION OF UTMS IS FOR SHAFT NO. 2, THE MAIN SHAFT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oatman(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Davis Dam(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Havasu-Mohave Lakes(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Mohave

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 019N 020W 14 SW Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Rock unit name Oatman Andesite;Gold Road Latite
    Rock description Oatman Andesite;Gold Road Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.38469, 35.02946
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Major Veins In The Region Are Nw Trending Fissure Veens
Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw Trending Fissure Vein With Gold Road Latite To The Ne And Oatman Andesite To The Sw; Branches Of The Main Tom Reed Vein

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS, LENTICULAR
    Thickness 14.63M
    Length 289.56M
    Width 228.6M
    Depth to top 91.44M
    Depth to bottom 259.08M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Nw Trending Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1915
Discoverer J.L. Mcivers
Production years 1917 - 1924

Mining district

District name San Francisco District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Fisher-Watt
    First year 1980

Comments on the production information

  • KNOWN ORE BODIES WERE EXHAUSTED BY JUNE 1924. DIAMOND DRILL PROSPECTING WAS DONE WITHOUT SUCCESS. AFTER 1932 LESSEES MINED 50 TONS OF ORE PER DAY BETWEEN THE 500 AND 700 FOOT LEVELS. PRODUCTION FIGURES FOR 1917 TO 1924 ALSO INCLUDE BIG JIM MINE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 3657.6M
    Overall depth 411.48M
    Overall length 640.08M
    Overall width 640.08M

Comments on the workings information

  • ENTIRE ORE BODY WAS STOPED OUT. LATER WORK MINED THE MARGINAL AREAS AROUND THE FILLED IN STOPES

Comments on development

  • PREVIOUS OWNERS AND OPERATORS INCLUDE W. ERICHSON, OATMAN ASSOC. CO, W.K. RIBENOUR, UNITED EASTERN MINING CO.; UNITED EASTERN MINING CO ALSO OWNED THE BIG JIM AND RED CLOUD MINES AND OPERATED THEM AS PART OF THE UNITED EASTERN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARDNER, E.D., 1936, GOLD MINING AND MILLING IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS, WESTERN MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZONA: U.S.B.M. INFORMATION CIRCULAR 6901, P. 23 -6.

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E.D., 1934, ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND GOLD MINING: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 137, P. 92 - 3.

  • Deposit

    LAUSEN, C., 1931, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE OATMAN AND KATHERINE DISTRICTS, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 131, P. 104.

  • Deposit

    ELSING, M.J., AND HEINEMAN, R.E., 1936, ARIZONA METAL PRODUCTION: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 140, P. 96.

  • Deposit

    AIME TRANS VOL 76, 1928, P. 56-65.

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 5, NO. 10, 1921, P. 22.

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    USBM IC 6901 P. 25 , ABM BULL 140 P. 96

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NE BRANCH OF TOM REED VEIN.
Deposit SEE RECORD M004499 (TOM REED MINE) FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.