Old Tiger Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold, 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. 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 10048077
MRDS ID M800053
Record type Site
Current site name Old Tiger Mine
Alternate or previous names California Gen. No. 70

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.34963, 34.19145 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 1.0 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CROWN KING, ARIZONA, Deposit Assumed To Be Equal To California Claim; Cal. Claim Acc. Located

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 010N 001W 22 SE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • OLD TIGER ASSUMED DIFFERENT FROM TIGER MINE; OLD TIGER ASSUMED LOCATED 0.5 MILES NORTHEAST OF TIGER MINE

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) None

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Crown King Granodiorite;Rhyolite Dikes
    Rock description Crown King Granodiorite;Rhyolite Dikes
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.34963, 34.19145

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Parallel Regional Foliation In Precambrian Metamorphic Rocks (N25e)

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N25E
    Dip 60W

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • OLD TIGER IS VEIN DEPOSIT CUTTING CRET-PALEO GRANODIORITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1922
Year of first production 1910
Year of last production 1913

Mining district

District name Tiger District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Yavapai Consolidated Gold And Silver Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall length 152.4M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOL SURVEY BULL. 782, P. 164-165 AND FIGURE ON THOSE PAGES

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    DEWITT, ED, 1976, UNPUB M.S. THESIS, UNIV. OF ARIZ. 150 PGS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: EARLY 1920'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-81 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.