Lane Mine

Past Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, 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. 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. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027870
MRDS ID M004286
Record type Site
Current site name Lane Mine
Related records 10161820

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.32435, 34.13784 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 4.5 MILES S OF CROWN KING.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crown King(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 009N 001E 11,12 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Propylitic, Sericitic

Host and associated rocks

  • 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
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.32435, 34.13784

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Proterozoic Rock Is Massive And Unfoliated
Type of structure Local
Structure description Dikes Of Rhyolite Trend N15e To N35e

Ore body information

  • General form LENS, MASSIVE
    Strike N50E
    Dip 75NW
    Thickness 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous Intrusions

Comments on the geologic information

  • LANE MOUNTAIN DISTRICT CONTAINS SMALL PORPHYRY-RELATED DEPOSITS SPATIALLY ASSOCIATED WITH RHYOLITE DIKE SWARMS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1882
Discoverer James Lane
Year of first production 1883

Mining district

District name Lane Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. C. Hanford, P. S. Hoyt
    First year 1969

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 250.55M
    Overall depth 117.04M
    Overall length 184.1M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, 1926, USGS BULL 782, P. 178.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D002385 OF J.W. HASLER WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit Discovery Year: EARLY 1880'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Roth, Frances A. (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.

Authoritative Arizona resources

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