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Museum Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Copper, Tungsten
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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. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048081
MRDS ID M800060
Record type Site
Current site name Museum Mine
Alternate or previous names Museum Group, Silver Museum
Related records 10162309

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.27935, 34.057 (WGS84)
Elevation 927
Relative position 7.2 MILES WEST 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

Columbia(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 008N 001E 08 NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION TAKEN TO BE MIDDLE OF MUSEUM CLAIM

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Secondary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Silver Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) None

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite;Rhyolite Porphyry Dikes
    Rock description Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite;Rhyolite Porphyry Dikes
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Proterozoic
    Chronological age 1720
    Dating method U-Pb (zircon)
    Type of media Zircon

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.27935, 34.057
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Batholith (Quartz Monzonite) Rather Massive And Structureless

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • MUSEUM IS VEIN SYSTEM CUTTING PROTEROZOIC QUARTZ MONZONITE. RHYOLITE PORPHYRY DIKES OF CRET-PALEO AGE OCCUR IN DISTRICT BUT ARE NOT NECESSARILY COINCIDENT WITH VEINS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1934

Mining district

District name Tip Top District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Bessie Morgan
    First year 1934

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT OF MIN. RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT - USBM FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT IS VEIN OF QUARTZ AND PYRITE IN PROTEROZOIC IORITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1981 Dewitt, Ed H. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

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