Silver King Mine

Producer in Gila county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046304
MRDS ID M241206
Record type Site
Current site name Silver King Mine
Related records 10210114

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.3621, 34.22673 (WGS84)
Elevation 1475
Relative position ABOUT 4.2 MILES NNW OF OXBOW HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gila(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Payson South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Payson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Holbrook(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Verde(hydrologic unit)

Verde(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tonto 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 Gila

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 010N 010E 07 CENTER OF E2 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 0.2 MILES NORTH OF ORCHARD TANK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Lead Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Cuprite Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.3621, 34.22673

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Strike N10E
    Dip SE TO VERTICAL
    Length 91.44M
    Width 1.83M

Comments on the geologic information

  • SEE CONWAY, 1976, FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1933
Year of last production 1934

Mining district

District name Green Valley District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Haught, Henry
    First year 1960
  • Type Owner
    Owner Haught, Henry
    First year 1967

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 30.48M
    Overall depth 21.34M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO INCLINED SHAFTS, ONE OF WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 100 FT LONG, REACHING A DEPTH OF 70 FT. ALSO SEVERAL SHALLOW WORKINGS ON THE ADJACENT CLAIM

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY CONSISTS OF TWO UNPATENTED CLAIMS; OTHER OPERATORS INCLUDE G. N. GREER AND W. L. HAUGHT (1935)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    MINING JOURNAL, SEPT. 15, 1935

  • Deposit

    CONWAY, C. M. 1976. PETROLOGY, STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF A PRECAMBRIAN VOLCANIC AND PLUTONIC COMPLEX, TONTO BASIN, GILA COUNTY, ARIZONA, PHD THESIS, CALIF. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1982 Roth, Frances A. (Gest, Don E.) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

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.