Fairview Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum
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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109860
MRDS ID M800340
Record type Site
Current site name Fairview Mine
Alternate or previous names Lyons Claims
Related records 10186393

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.91545, 34.53533 (WGS84)
Elevation 1146
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 1.7 MILES SOUTH EAST OF JUNIPER HILL., Location Measured To Only Known Shaft In General Mine Area.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Middle Verde(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sedona(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Holbrook(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 013N 004E 10 SW OF NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN COPPER CANYON; UTM LOCATION MEASURED TO ONLY KNOWN SHAFT IN THE CANYON.

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.91545, 34.53533

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Depth to bottom 38.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Igneous Activity

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1932
Discoverer S.F. Lyons
Year of first production 1935
Year of last production 1937

Mining district

District name Squaw Peak District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Fairview Verde Mining Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 38.1M

Comments on development

  • LYONS GROUP OF CLAIMS CONSISTED OF 10 CLAIMS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT MAY BE LCRET-PALEO VEIN WHICH CUTS PROTEROZOIC SCHIST AND GRANITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-81 Roth, Frances A. (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.