Emporia Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Copper, 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. 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 10088893
MRDS ID M800339
Record type Site
Current site name Emporia Mine
Alternate or previous names One Hundred and Ten Mine
Related records 10283734

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.44631, 34.46088 (WGS84)
Elevation 1914
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 3.9 MILES NW OF THE MT UNION LOOKOUT TOWER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Groom Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bradshaw Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hassayampa(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(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 013N 002W 34 SE OF SE OF NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • BLM DISTRICT SHEET NO. 248 SHOWS THE EMPORIA CLAIM TO BE IN THE AREA OF THE SKY Y CAMP.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Government Canyon Granodiorite
    Rock description Government Canyon Granodiorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.44631, 34.46088

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Granodiorite Rather Massive
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Trend N30w To N25w

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N25W
    Dip 53E
    Thickness 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS QUARTZ VEIN WHICH CUTS PROTEROZOIC GRANODIORITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1898
Year of first production 1902
Year of last production 1927

Mining district

District name Groom Creek District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Golden Dragon Mining And Milling Co. , Maywood Copper Co.
    First year 1919
  • Type Owner
    Owner Golden Dragon Mining And Milling Co.
    First year 1919

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 33.53M
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHAFTS 110 FT APART, EACH CONNECTED BY DRIFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT MIN RES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    AZ MIN JOUR, 1919, V III #5 P. 23

  • Deposit

    BLM DISTRICT MAP #248

  • Deposit

    USGS GQ MAP GQ-997

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RIBBON QUARTZ

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-81 Laraba, Peter (Dewitt, Ed) 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.