Maricopa Mine

Past Producer in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum, 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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  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 10027304
MRDS ID M002782
Record type Site
Current site name Maricopa Mine
Related records 10113784

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.96212, 33.88007 (WGS84)
Elevation 732
Relative position 3 MI N OF CAVE CREEK, ADJACENT AND S OF OLD PHOENIX MINE; ABOUT 2. 2 MI S OF SUGARLOAF MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

New River Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Theodore Roosevelt Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Salt(hydrologic unit)

Salt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 006N 004E 08,09 E2 (08) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1964

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Vanadinite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Analytical data

Result 0.5% MO

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Yavapai Schist
    Rock description Yavapai Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.96212, 33.88007

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL RAPIDLY
    Strike NW
    Dip STEEP
    Width 2.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Quartz In Silicified Brecciated Zones Striking N With Steep Dip

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1882
Year of last production 1970

Mining district

District name Cave Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Lewis, A. S.
    Home office Cave Creek, Az.
    First year 1939
  • Type Owner
    Owner Barney Lumbert And Hamilton Chandler
    First year 1972

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCED INTERMITTENTLY IN 1939

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SEVERAL THOUSAND TONS OF $8 GOLD ORE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 182.88M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • 25-TON MILLING PLANT-YEAR NOT KNOWN; ADIT WITH WINZE AND AT LEAST 2 SHAFTS

Comments on development

  • CLAIMS INCLUDE APOCIREM, OPHIR NO. 3, HEART, KATHERINE; PREVIOUS OWNERS/OPERATORS INCLUDE PHOENIX CO, BLACK JACK NEWMAN, PLATT & TRANER , CHARLES DAVIES, LEE ROTNER, ALFRED STRONG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILSON ET AL, 1941, ABM BULL 137, P. 164

  • Deposit

    ABM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    LEWIS, 1920, E & MJ, V 110, P. 713-716

  • Deposit

    MINING JOURNAL, VARIOUS ISSUES, 1939

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Production

    WILSON ET AL, 1934

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M002782 WITH RE CORD M800117 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS. RECORD # D000081 BY RICHARD P. FISCHER HAS ALSO BEEN INCORPORATED. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1973 Fischer, Richard P. 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.