Excelsior Mine

Past Producer in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Molybdenum, Zinc
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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027784
MRDS ID M004083
Record type Site
Current site name Excelsior Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.19692, 35.80334 (WGS84)
Elevation 1049
Relative position IN WHITE HILLS, 9 MILES W OF GARNET MOUNTAIN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Basin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Boulder City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Red Lake(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(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 Mohave

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 028N 018W 22 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Propyllitic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.19692, 35.80334

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 45 NW
    Width 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Occurs Mainly In The Hanging Wall

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1885
Discoverer Patterson, Rowe, Fox
Production years 1900 - 1906

Mining district

District name Gold Basin District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINED SHAFTS, DRIFTS, AND STOPES

Comments on development

  • WALTER FLECK, BARKLEY, SKOGLIE, JOHN LARLOW, MALCO GOLD MINING CO, C.L. FLECK, BEN F. GRIFFITH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD MINERALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH CRET MASSIVE WHITE QUARTZ VEINS.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1880'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1978 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) 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.