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Monarch Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite
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  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048250
MRDS ID M800364
Record type Site
Current site name Monarch Mine
Alternate or previous names Jumbo Group, Three Black Buttes, Ryland
Related records 10283848

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.59408, 33.98673 (WGS84)
Elevation 975
Relative position ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF RED PICACHO PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Picacho(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Phoenix North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hassayampa(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 003W 32 S2 OF S2 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • UTM LOCATION MEASURED TO CENTER OF CLUSTER OF SHAFTS AND ADITS ALONG SOUTHERN BORDER OF SECTION 32. MONARCH INCLUDES EVERYTHING IN MIDDLE HALF OF SOUTHERN QUARTER OF SECTION 32

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Copper Ore
Fluorite Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) None

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.59408, 33.98673
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Foliation In Precambrian Schist And Gneiss Trends N25e To N65e
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins (And Genetically Related (?) Dikes) Trend N10w To N40w And Crosscut Precambrian Fabric

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Depth to bottom 182.88M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing. Igneous Activity-Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS HIGH-ANGLE QUARTZ VEIN WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH RHYOLITE OR ANDESITE DIKES OF PROBABLE MID-TERTIARY AGE THAT CUT PRECAMBRIAN IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer Rylander
Year of first production 1908
Year of last production 1944

Mining district

District name Black Rock District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner D. P. Evans
    First year 1953
  • Type Owner
    Owner Jumbo Copper Co
    First year 1942

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.026HA
    Length 701.04M
    Overall depth 182.88M
    Overall length 179.83M
    Overall width 1.52M

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLUDES NUMEROUS SHAFTS AND TUNNELS OF WHICH SHAFT 5 IS THE DEEPEST (TIMBERED TO 510 FT LEVEL); OVERALL LENGTH FIGURE IS BASED ON LONGEST SINGLE TUNNEL

Comments on development

  • INCLUDES THE HAZEL, SULPHURETTS, LUCK SURE, CARTHAGE, DENVER, AND WASHINGTON CLAIMS (PATENTED)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES

  • Deposit

    ABGMT - USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT MIN RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    WEED, 1924, MINES HANDBOOK, VOL XVI, P. 246

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1981 Roth, Frances A. (Dewitt, Ed) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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