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Yavapai Mine

Past Producer in Greenlee county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Zinc
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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. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048273
MRDS ID M800396
Record type Site
Current site name Yavapai Mine
Alternate or previous names Part of Arizona Copper Co Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.36121, 33.08566 (WGS84)
Elevation 1482
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position INCORPORATED INTO SOUTHERN HALF OF MORENCI OPEN PIT., Used Blm District Sheet 840 And Usgs Professional Paper 43 (1905), Used Blm District Sheet 840 And Usgs Professional Paper 43 (1905)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Francisco(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Greenlee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S 029E 16 S2 OF NE OF N2 OF SE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • WEST OF LONGFELLOW MINE; JUST EAST OF THE WEST YANKIE LODE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Pyroxene Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limestones Alterred To Intergrowths Of Epidote, Garnet, Pyroxene, Magnetite, Pyrite, And Chalcopyrite; Extensive Surface Oxidation To Depths Of 100 Ft; Porphyry Greatly Alterred To Sericite And Quartz With Disseminated Pyrite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Morenci Granite Porphyry
    Rock description Morenci Granite Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Longfellow Limestone
    Rock description Longfellow Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.36121, 33.08566
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Complex System Of Branching Porphyry Dikes Enclosing Irregular Masses Of Alterred Limestone; Difficult To Connect The Bodies Exposed On Various Levels Of Mines In The Area
Type of structure Local
Structure description Dikes Contain Parallel Seams Of Chalcocite And Pyrite; Dikes Outcrop To Widths Of 30 Ft But Are Locally Pinched Below The 183 Ft Mine Level

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Width 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Is Confined To Porphyry Dikes That Probably Stem From The Main Maps Of Copper Mountain Porphyry

Comments on the geologic information

  • ROCKS ARE EXTREMELY FRESH AND HARD AT DEPTHS OF 100 FT OR MORE. DIKES ARE PROBABLY A CONTINUATION OF THE NORTH DIKE OF LONGFELLOW MINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of last production 1932

Mining district

District name Copper Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Phelps Dodge Corp., Morenci Branch (As Part Of Morenci Open Pit
  • Type Owner
    Owner Phelps Dodge Corp., Morenci Branch

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION DATA INCLUDED IN LONGFELLOW METCALF MINE; LONGFELLOW METCALF ALSO INCLUDES THE MAMMOTH, LONGFELLOW, METCALF, DETROIT, CORONADO, JOY AND HUMBOLDT MINES OF THE ARIZONA COPPER CO LTD; BY 1905 THE YAVAPAI MINE HAD PRODUCED 40,000 TONS OF FIRST CLASS ORE AND 80,000 TONS OF CONCENTRATING GRADE (SEE USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 43)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 914.4M
    Overall depth 86.26M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDED ABOUT 3000 FT OF DRIFTS AND WINZES; 283 FT DEEP YAVAPAI SHAFT WITH LEVELS AT 118 FT AND 183 FT BELOW THE COLLAR, AND EXTENDING IN ALL PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS; YAVAPAI TUNNEL 18 FT ABOVE THE SHAFT LEVEL; SEVERAL STOPES ON A LINE BETWEEN THE YAVAPAI AND WEST YANKIE MINES; YAVAPAI, CLAY, AND PETALUMA MINES ARE CONNECTED BY TUNNELS.

Comments on development

  • OWNERS INCLUDED THE ARIZONA COPPER CO LTD.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, ARIZONA COPPER CO LTD.

  • Deposit

    BLM DISTRICT SHEET 840.

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 43, P. 269-271.

  • Deposit

    BENNETT, K.C., 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DISSEMINATED PYRITE IN SERICITIZED PORPHYRY IS EITHER PARTLY OR WHOLLY REPLACED BY CHALCOCITE. LIMESTONES CONTAIN VERTICAL SEAMS OF PYRITE.
Deposit SEE ALSO: LONGFELLOW MINE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit ONE PATENTED CLAIM OVERLAPPED IN CENTER BY THE MONTEZUMA CLAIM OF THE DETROIT COPPER MINING CO. CLAIM OCCUPIED A TRIANGULAR AREA EQUAL TO HALF A CLAIM.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-81 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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