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Tip Top Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Zinc, Lead, Arsenic, 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 10109015
MRDS ID M002345
Record type Site
Current site name Tip Top Mine
Alternate or previous names Conqueror, Tip Top Mine Includes Group of 3 Patented Claims: Tip Top, Keystone,, And Joker, and 3 Unpatented Claims: Tip Top South, Very Top,, And Black Jack
Related records 10186073

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.24713, 34.05256 (WGS84)
Elevation 853
Relative position 6 MILES W-SW OF BLACK CANYON CITY.

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)

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 10 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Tungsten Critical Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Cerargyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Wolframite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

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;
    Rock description Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite;
  • 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
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Mica Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Proterozoic
    Chronological age 1720
    Dating method U-Pb (zircon)
    Type of media Zircon

Nearby scientific data

(1) Early Proterozoic granitic rocks
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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, PINCH AND SWELL
    Strike N 55 E
    Dip 67 NW
    Plunge 60
    Plunge direction NNE
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 365.76M
    Width 228.6M
    Depth to bottom 228.6M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • TIP TOP 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
Discovery year 1875
Discoverer Moore And Corning
Year of first production 1875
Year of last production 1942

Mining district

District name Tip Top District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Frank Carlisle
    First year 1926

Comments on the production information

  • ITEM ( 9 ) IS ESTIMATED FROM $ 200,000 IN GOLD PRODUCTION AT $ 20.67 PER OUNCE. WORKED PRINCIPALLY FOR SILVER AND GOLD 1875-1883, WITH OUTPUT VALUED AT $2,200,000. SMALL OUTPUT OF WO3 (POSSIBLY FEW HUNDRED UNITS) IN WORLD WAR I, IN 1928, AND SINCE 1936, PRINCIPALLY FROM OLD DUMPS.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.105HA
    Length 2133.6M
    Overall depth 243.84M
    Overall length 182.88M
    Overall width 6.1M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 782, P. 180

  • Deposit

    ELSING, M.J. AND HEINEMAN, R.E., 1936 , ARIZONA METAL PRODUCTION: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 140 , P. 103

  • Deposit

    LEMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962 , TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S.; U.S.G.S. MAP, MR - 25 .

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 8078, P. 29-30

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    MINING JOURNAL, V. 7, NO. 12, P. 5-6, 1924

  • Deposit

    MINING JOURNAL, V. 20, NO. 5, P. 3-5, 1936

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    A.B.M. BULLETIN 140 , P. 103 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OXIDATION DOWN TO 200 FT.
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000841 OF J.E. ELLIOTT WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1981 Dewitt, Ed H. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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

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