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Mayby Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109816
MRDS ID M800059
Record type Site
Current site name Mayby Mine
Alternate or previous names Foy Group, Foy, Belcher, Maybe Prospect
Related records 10210245

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.27463, 34.06062 (WGS84)
Elevation 988
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 6.6 MILES WEST OF BLACK CANYON CITY, ARIZONA, Location Is Middle Of Group Of Shafs In Section 04

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 04;05 NW OF NW (04); SW OF SW (05) Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Silver Ore
Wolframite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) None

Analytical data

Result ESTIMATED TO HAVE PRODUCED $140,000 OF SILVER ORE AND 40 UNITS OF WO3

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 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) -112.27463, 34.06062
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Batholith (Quartz Monzonite) Rather Massive And Structureless
Type of structure Local
Structure description Foliation In Schist Oriented N 60 E, 75 Nw

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, PINCH AND SWELL
    Strike N 30 E
    Dip 80 NW
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 15.24M
    Depth to bottom 3.66M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • MAYBE 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

Mining district

District name Tip Top District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W. S. And E. G. Hudson
    First year 1953

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 9.14M

Comments on development

  • ORIGINALLY LOCATED IN 1880'S AS FOY GROUP. RELOCATED IN 1952

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM I.C. 8078, P. 30-31

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT MIN RESOURCES FILE DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-81 Dewitt, Ed H. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

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