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Derby Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048234
MRDS ID M800335
Record type Site
Current site name Derby Mine
Alternate or previous names Madizell, Puritan and Italian Claims
Related records 10186740

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.57019, 34.55783 (WGS84)
Elevation 1963
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 3.0 MILES NW OF THUMB BUTTE, Taken To Center Of The Puritan And Italian Claims

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Iron Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Verde(hydrologic unit)

Verde(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Prescott 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 Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 014N 003W 28 SE OF SE OF SE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • THE DERBY CLAIMS WERE LOCATED ON BLM DISTRICT SHEET #272, SE 1/2, AS WERE THE PURITAN AND ITALIAN CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.57019, 34.55783
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Foliation In Proterozoic Rocks Trends N20e
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Trend N60w And Crosscut Precambrian Foliation

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NW TO WNW
    Dip 50S
    Thickness 0.25M
    Length 60.96M
    Depth to bottom 152.4M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS QUARTZ VEIN WHICH CUTS PROTEROZOIC GRANODIORITE. AGE OF VEIN NOT CLOSELY CONSTRAINED, BUT THOUGHT TO BE PRECAMBRIAN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1905
Year of last production 1937

Mining district

District name Thumb Butte District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Madizelle Mining Co.
    First year 1905
  • Type Owner
    Owner Madizelle Mining Co. ; Mary Young
    First year 1905

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1524M
    Overall depth 152.4M
    Overall length 243.84M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE SHAFT 500 FT DEEP, ANOTHER 300 FT DEEP. TUNNELS FROM SHAFTS, 500, 700, 800, AND 130 FEET LONG, WITH A TOTAL OF ABOUT 5,000 FT OF WORKINGS (1918). APPARENTLY THE MAIN WORKINGS OF THE DERBY GROUP ARE ON THE PURITAN AND ITALIAN CLAIMS. THESE TWO CLAIMS ARE LOCATED ONE-HALF MILE WEST OF THE DERBY PATENTED CLAIMS, IN THE FAR SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SEC. 28, T14N, R3W. THE PURITAN HAD A 200 FT SHAFT WITH OVER 700 FT OF DRIFTS, AND THE ITALIAN HAD A 365 FT SHAFT WITH AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF DRIFTS.

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY ONCE OWNED AND OPERATED BY G. U. YOUNG, PRESIDENT OF MADIZELLE MINING CO. CONSISTED ORIGINALLY OF 18 CLAIMS, PURITAN, ITALIAN, HUMBERT, SUNNY SIDE NO. 1, SUNNY SIDE, KNOCKER DOOM, SURE ENOUGH, DERBY, DERBY NO. 2, DERBY NO. 3, HUGMENOT, MADIZELL, PATSY, ELLEN NO. 1, ELLEN NO. 2 (1909). THE PROPERTY NOW HAS 25 CLAIMS (1940), ADDED CLAIM NAMES UNKNOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    BLM DISTRICT SHEET #272, SE 1/2

  • Deposit

    WEED, THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1918, VOL XIII, P. 215

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT IS APPARENTLY A QUARTZ VEIN THAT TRENDS NW AND CUTS PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-81 Laraba, Peter (Dewitt, Ed) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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