Lion Hill Mine

Past Producer in La Paz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Silver
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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027158
MRDS ID M002308
Record type Site
Current site name Lion Hill Mine
Alternate or previous names Glory Group, Rico
Related records 10234789

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.18912, 34.18282 (WGS84)
Elevation 274
Relative position 7 MILES BY ROAD NORTHEAST OF PARKER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Paz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cross Roads(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Parker(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Needles(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imperial Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(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 La Paz

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 010N 019W 25 CENTER OF N2 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • S OF BILLY MACK MOUNTAIN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Secondary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Gold Ore
Limonite Ore
Malachite Ore
Silver Ore
Specularite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor Iron Oxide

Analytical data

Result 700 TONS OF ORE AVERAGING ABOUT 2.4 OZ AU/TON, 0.2 OZ AG/TON, AND .4% CU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.18912, 34.18282

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Nw-Trending Basin And Range Faults.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Limestone Has Been Considerably Faulted And Jointed And Folded Into An Anticlinal Structure

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Deposits Occur Within Shear Zones, Controlled By Fracturing And Bedding.

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH LOW-ANGLE NORMAL FAULTS; OREBODIES FOUND WITHIN AND ABOVE THE FLINTY, CHLORITIC, MICROBRECCIATED DETACHMENT SURFACE; SOME HIGH GRADE GOLD POCKETS IN IRON OXIDE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1943

Mining district

District name Cienega District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • THE ORE RECENTLY MILLED CONTAINED ALSO A TRACE OF SILVER AND ABOUT 0.5% OF COPPER.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall length 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS INCLUDE ABOUT 2000 FEET OF DRIFTS, TOGETHER WITH SOME WINZES, RAISES AND STOPES

Comments on development

  • PROSPECTED AND WORKED INTERMITTENTLY FROM EARLY 1900'S BUT PRODUCTION MAINLY FROM 1917 TO 1920, 1928 TO 1933, 1937 TO 1938; PAST OPERATORS INCLUDE: BILLY MACK MINING CO., ILLINOIS-ARIZONA COPPER CO., LION HILL GOLD MINING CO., OSBORNE ANDBOTZUM.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABM BULL 137, P. 126.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT BULL 192, P. 142.

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S.B., 1978, INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 192, P. 142.

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    WILKINS, J., AND HEIDRICK, T.L., 1982, BASE AND PRECIOUS METAL MINERALIZATION RELATED TO LOW-ANGLE TECTONIC FEATURES IN THE WHIPPLE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA AND BUCKSKIN MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA. IN: MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE COLORADO RIVER REGION, CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, AND NEVADA: CORDILLERAN PUBLISHERS, P. 182.

  • Production

    A.B.M. BULLETIN 137, P. 126; A.B.M. 192, P. 142.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1979 Hall, R. K. (Creasey, S. C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1995 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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