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Diamond Joe Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum
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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 10109859
MRDS ID M800336
Record type Site
Current site name Diamond Joe Mine
Related records 10137780

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.60436, 34.00117 (WGS84)
Elevation 988
Relative position ABOUT 3.1 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DENVER HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morgan Butte(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

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 003W 30 SE OF SE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION FOR UTM MEASURED TO CENTER OF SHAFT AND ADIT ON EAST SIDE OF INTERMITTANT STREAM; ANOTHER SHAFT, INDICATED BY MINE WORKINGS SYMBOL, IS SLIGHTLY SOUTH, TO WEST OF STREAM

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Cerargyrite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) None

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.60436, 34.00117
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Foliation In Precambrian Schist And Gneiss Trends N25e To N65e
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins (And Genetically Related (?) Dikes) Trend N10w To N40w And Crosscut Precambrian Fabric

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N27W
    Dip 55SW
    Thickness 2.44M
    Length 457.2M
    Width 68.58M
    Depth to bottom 68.58M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing, Igneous Activity-Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS HIGH-ANGLE QUARTZ VEIN WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH RHYOLITE OR ANDESITE DIKES OF PROBABLE MID-TERT AGE THAT CUT PRECAMBRIAN IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer A.B. Lovell
Year of first production 1901
Year of last production 1946

Mining district

District name Black Rock District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner L. Emmons And R. Krug
    First year 1957

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 1.928HA
    Length 777.24M
    Overall depth 68.58M
    Overall length 335.28M
    Overall width 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE SHAFTS (NO. 2 AND NO. 3 ARE VERTICAL, NO. 1 IS INCLINED); ALL ARE CONNECTED UNDERGROUND

Comments on development

  • CONSISTS OF 10 CLAIMS; MOST RECENT OWNER HOLDS SOME BUT NOT ALL OF THE ORIGINAL CLAIMS, INCLUDING CALCITE NO. 1 AND NO. 2; MINE LOCATED ON CHARLES NO. 1, 2, 4, AND 5

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPING FILES

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT. MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1981 Roth, Frances A. (Dewitt, Ed) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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