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Golden Wave Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
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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 10109861
MRDS ID M800349
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Wave Mine
Alternate or previous names Rees, Reese, Coronado
Related records 10162084

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.85381, 34.21838 (WGS84)
Elevation 1183
Relative position 3.0 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF TENDERFOOT HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Congress(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 010N 006W 11 SE OF SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION TAKEN TO CENTER OF SHAFT ON EAST SLOPE OF HILL. THERE IS A SECOND SHAFT DOWN HILL TO THE NORTHEAST AND TWO ADITS TO NORTH WEST ON THE NEXT HILL. ONE OF THESE ADITS IS LOCATED IN SECTION 10 SE.

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) None

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.85381, 34.21838
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Granite Is Massive And Unfoliated
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Parallel Andesite Dikes Which Trend E-W To Ne And Dip At Low Angles, Less Than 40 Deg.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NW-SE
    Dip 30NE
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 2560.32M
    Width 359.66M
    Depth to bottom 359.66M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing, Igneous Activity

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS QUARTZ VEIN WHICH CUTS PRECAMBRIAN GRANITE. VEIN USUALLY ASSOCIATED WITH ANDESITE AND MAFIC DIKES WHICH DIP SHALLOWLY TO THE NORTH.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1934
Year of last production 1938

Mining district

District name Martinez District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner F. C. Hoeppner And B. A. Gillespie-1941
  • Type Owner
    Owner James Rees

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.006HA
    Length 457.2M
    Overall depth 359.66M
    Overall length 25.6M
    Overall width 2.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • MAIN SHAFT IS 1180 FT DEEP WITH DRIFTS TO THE SE AND NW AT THE 300 FT AND 500 FT LEVELS, AS WELL AS A CROSSCUT OF 700 FT FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE SURFACE. ADDITIONAL SHAFTS VARY FROM 50 TO 300 FT.

Comments on development

  • 13 CLAIMS INCLUDING MARTINEZ, LAST CHANCE AND GOLDEN WAVE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT MIN. RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USBM INFO. CIRC. IC 6991, P.39

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN RUNS PARALLEL TO THE VEINS FOR THE CONGRESS MINE

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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