Little Joseph Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Arsenic
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. 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 10048066
MRDS ID M800037
Record type Site
Current site name Little Joseph Mine
Alternate or previous names Little Joe, Acquisition ?, Columbia Gold Mining Property
Related records 10186332

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.30018, 34.05145 (WGS84)
Elevation 1006
Relative position 8.6 MILES WEST - SOUTHWEST OF BLACK CANYON CITY, ARIZONA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Columbia(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 008N 001E 07 SE OF NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 1.5 MILES EAST OF OLD SITE OF HUMBUG

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization Adjacent To Some Dikes

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite;Rhyolite Porphyry Dikes
    Rock description Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite;Rhyolite Porphyry Dikes
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.30018, 34.05145

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Foliation In Precambrian Xenoliths (Quartz-Mica Schist) Trends N 40-50 E
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Parallel Rhyolite Porphyry Dikes And Foliation In Precambrian Xenoliths

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 48 E
    Dip 70 TO 80 NW
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 213.36M
    Width 121.92M
    Depth to bottom 152.4M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • IDENTICAL TO GEOLOGY OF EL PERO BONITO DEPOSIT, EXCEPT NO RHYOLITE DIKES ON LITTLE JOSEPH PROPERTY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1886
Discoverer Charles Champie
Year of first production 1890
Year of last production 1939

Mining district

District name Humbug District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Stockdale And Stivers

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.053HA
    Length 457.2M
    Overall depth 152.4M
    Overall length 182.88M
    Overall width 3.05M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT OF MIN RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT - USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 782, P. 178-179

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LITTLE JOSEPH CLAIM GROUP CONSISTS OF 4 PATENTED CLAIMS WHICH AD TO IN MOUNTAIN CHIEF GROUP ON THE EAST

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Dewitt, Ed H. 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.