Maggie Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048072
MRDS ID M800046
Record type Site
Current site name Maggie Mine
Alternate or previous names Maggie & Bella, Little Maggie Mine
Related records 10186242

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.14851, 34.11312 (WGS84)
Elevation 677
Relative position 3.1 MILES NORTH OF BLACK CANYON CITY, ARIZONA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Canyon City(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)

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 Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 009N 002E 22 NW OF NW Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) None

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Length 30.48M
    Width 36.58M
    Depth to bottom 36.58M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1896
Discoverer J.R. Brown
Year of last production 1941

Mining district

District name Richinbar District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner John Treadway (1986, Phoenix, Ariz.)
  • Type Owner
    Owner John Whitson, Phoenix, Arizona
    First year 1975

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.011HA
    Length 50M
    Overall depth 36.58M
    Overall length 39.62M
    Overall width 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE SHAFT AND ONE TUNNEL

Comments on development

  • CORE DRILLING PROJECT DURING 1984-1986.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    JEROME, S.E., 1956, UNPUB PH.D, UTAH UNIV. 150 P.

  • Deposit

    NIEMUTH, N.J., 1987, ARIZONA MINERAL DEVELOPMENT 1984-1986: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES DIRECTORY 29, 46 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MAGGIE IS QUARTZ VEIN CUTTING PRECAMBRIAN GRANODIORITE.
Deposit GROUP OF 4 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Dewitt, Ed H. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-FEB-1993 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Arizona resources

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