Tom Wade Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026749
MRDS ID M000062
Record type Site
Current site name Tom Wade Mine
Alternate or previous names 4th of July Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.26157, 34.052 (WGS84)
Elevation 811
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 6.3 MILES WEST OF BLACK CANYON CITY, ARIZONA, Probably In Ne Quarter Of Sec 9, 1000 Ft Ne Of Eldorado Mine

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 09 NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • TOM WADE MINE (AND CLAIM) LOCATED BETWEEN EL DORADO AND 76 MINES

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Wolframite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) None

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 Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Proterozoic
    Chronological age 1720
    Dating method U-Pb (zircon)
    Type of media Zircon

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.26157, 34.052

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Batholith (Quartz Monzonite) Rather Massive And Structureless

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 65 E
    Dip 70 TO 80 NW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • TOM WADE IS VEIN SYSTEM CUTTING PROTEROZOIC QUARTZ MONZONITE. RHYOLITE PORPHYRY DIKES OF CRET - PALEO AGE OCCUR IN DISTRICT BUT ARE NOT NECESSARILY COINCIDENT WITH VEINS. TOM WADE AND EL DORADO ARE SAME VEIN SYSTEM

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1877
Year of first production 1927
Year of last production 1935

Mining district

District name Tip Top District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT - USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT OF MIN. RESOURCES DATA

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 782, P. 180

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: LATE 1870'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-81 Dewitt, Ed H. 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.