Portmanteau Mine

Past Producer in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046363
MRDS ID M241500
Record type Site
Current site name Portmanteau Mine
Alternate or previous names Gold Hill Mine, Van Buskirk
Related records 10113600

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.85822, 33.88924 (WGS84)
Elevation 1311
Relative position ON THE SOUTHWEST SLOPE OF GOLD HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Humboldt Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Theodore Roosevelt Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Verde(hydrologic unit)

Verde(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tonto National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 006N 005E 05 E2 OF SE Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.85822, 33.88924

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Small Granite Pod Surrounded By Acteres Shale, Siltstone. Ne Trending Tert Fractures In Area. Tert Basalts Cap Mesas Locally Large Out Crop Extent Of 1.2 By Caxe Creek Quartz Monzonite Begins 1 1/2 Miles S. Of Mine
Type of structure Local
Structure description Granitic Intrusion Into Prec Sediments. Intrusive Outcrop Is 1/3 Mile In Length, E-W Elongated, And 1/6 Mile Wide. Mine Is At West End Of Intrusion

Comments on the geologic information

  • TWO OTHER SIMILAR GRANITE PODS W OF MINE TERTLARY MINERALLZATION PROBABLE, AS IS PROBABLE AGE OF GRANITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1920
Year of last production 1937

Mining district

District name Cave Creek District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner R. B. Van Buskirk (Nickolson Mining Co.)
    First year 1937
  • Type Owner
    Owner Mississippi Valley Trust Co.
    First year 1937

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 481.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • TUNNELS

Comments on development

  • CLAIMS INCLUDE THE PORTMANTEAU, RAVEN, DAVIS, LYON, LEGAL TENDER, FAIRVIEW

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES

  • Deposit

    USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    DEWITT, ED, 1981, UNPUBLISHED MAPPING

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1982 Roth, Frances A. (Gest, Don E.) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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