Money Metals Mine

Past Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Uranium, Vanadium
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. Land status
  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 10026929
MRDS ID M001123
Record type Site
Current site name Money Metals Mine
Alternate or previous names Snow Drift, Snowdrift
Related records 10210737

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.38657, 34.43755 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256
Relative position 3.75 MILES SE OF GROOM CREEK.

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)

Agua Fria(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 12N 001W 32 NW Arizona

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Metahewettite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tyuyamunite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) None

Analytical data

Result MUCH OF THE VEIN CONTAINS 0.5 OZ. AU/TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.38657, 34.43755

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Foliation In Precambrian Rocks Trends N35e To N45e
Type of structure Local
Structure description Dikes And Veins Parallel Foliation

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 50 W
    Dip 67 SW
    Length 53.34M
    Width 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS VEIN WHICH CUTS PRECAMBRIAN GRANODIORITE. PORPHYRY DIKES OF PROBABLE CRET-TERT AGE ASSOCIATED WITH VEINS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Walker District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 426.72M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E.D., 1934, ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND GOLD MINING: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 137, P. 40.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 782, P. 136.

  • Deposit

    CHENOWETH, W.L., 1973, URANIUM DEPOSITS OF NE ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO GEOLOGIC SOCIETY 24TH FIELD GUIDEBOOK, P. 147-148.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD M241488 OF D. BRIGHT AND S. CREASEY WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1981 Laraba, Peter (Dewitt, Ed) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-DEC-1992 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.