Climax Mine

Past Producer in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Vanadium, Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037092
MRDS ID M030383
Record type Site
Current site name Climax Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.11137, 35.94333 (WGS84)
Elevation 1134
Relative position 15 MI S OF PIERCE FERRY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Meadview South(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 030N 017W 33 SE4 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Fluorite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Syenite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.11137, 35.94333

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NE
    Dip 20W

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Amphibolite Metasediments & Granitoid Plutons (Veins), Leucosyenite & Fluorite (Disseminated)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Lost Basin District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the production information

  • ABOUT 11,000 TONS OF ORE FROM CLIMAX, CYCLOPIC, LILLIAN, & GOLD GR OUPS IN 1940 PRODUCED 204 OZ AG, 459 OZ AU

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BLACET, 1972, USGS PP 800 A.

  • Deposit

    BLACET, 1975, USGS OF 75-93.

  • Deposit

    GALBRAITH, 1941, ARIZ. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 149, P. 64.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    AZ BUR GEOLOGY FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M030383 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE; CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS. THIS RECORD ALSO CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000072 OF R.P. FISCHER WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. 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.