Saratoga Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, 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 10048078
MRDS ID M800055
Record type Site
Current site name Saratoga Mine
Alternate or previous names Saratoga Claim
Related records 10186840

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.34713, 34.22088 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 1.0 MILES NORTH OF CROWN KING, ARIZONA, Location To South Of Crown King Mine, To Within 0.25 Miles

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 10 NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • MILS LOCATION DATA SAYS SARATOGA IN 10N, 1W, 11SW. LINDGREN (1926) SHOWS IT TO ADJOIN CROWN KING CLAIM AT CROWN KING MINE. THEREFORE SARATOGA PROBABLY IN SEC 10, NOT SEC 11. UTM APPROXIMATE

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
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
    Rock description Crown King Granodiorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.34713, 34.22088

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Regional Foliation In Proterozoic Rocks = N 20 E
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Parallel Regional Foliation

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 20 E
    Dip 70 W AVERAGE
    Depth to bottom 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • SARATOGA VEIN IS APPARENTLY THE SOUTHERN EXTENSION OF THE CROWN KING VEIN. THE VEIN IS DEVELOPED IN BOTH GRANODIORITE AND PRECAMBRIAN METAVOLCANIC ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1925
Year of first production 1913
Year of last production 1916

Mining district

District name Tiger District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Saratoga Mining Co.
    First year 1925
  • Type Owner
    Owner Deming, J. L.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 365.76M
    Overall depth 300M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT - USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    AZ. DEPT. OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL 782, P. 164-165

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: EARLY 1900'S
Deposit 5 PATENTED. 2 UNPATENTED CLAIMS

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.

Authoritative Arizona resources

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