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Silver Flake Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, Cobalt
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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 10048258
MRDS ID M800376
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Flake Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.47381, 34.47255 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position 3.1 MILES NORTH OF MAVERICK MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Groom Creek(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

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 002W 28 SE OF NE OF SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 0.8 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE RUTH MINE. LOCATION DATA FROM USGS BULL 782. GEOLOGIC MAP.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Secondary
Uranium Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Cobaltite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Government Canyon Granodiorite
    Rock description Government Canyon Granodiorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.47381, 34.47255
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Granodiorite Rather Massive
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Trend N30w To N60w

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N60E
    Dip 45NW
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 914.4M
    Width 30.48M
    Depth to bottom 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS QUARTZ VEIN WHICH CUTS PROTEROZOIC GRANODIORITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1885
Year of first production 1895
Year of last production 1954

Mining district

District name Groom Creek District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Julian Sanchez
    First year 1951

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 365.76M
    Overall depth 91.44M
    Overall length 213.36M

Comments on the workings information

  • 300 FOOT INCLINE SHAFT (1956);

Comments on development

  • WORK WAS DONE ON THE COMBINATION CLAIM IN THE 1890'S TO EARLY 1900'S. MINE WAS CLOSED ABOUT 1904. REOPENED IN 1951. GROUP OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS CALLED COMBINATION, SUN CLOUD, ELECTRIC STORM, JUNIPER, JUNIPER EXTENSION, CONQUISTADOR, PORCUPINE, AND ST. PATRICK

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USGS GQ MAP GQ-997

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SECONDARY URANIUM MINERALS, CARNOTITE AND TYUYAMUNITE, PRESENT
Deposit Discovery Year: 1880'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1981 Laraba, Peter (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.

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