1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Kitty Why Mine

Producer in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048305
MRDS ID M899864
Record type Site
Current site name Kitty Why Mine
Alternate or previous names Herring Property, Herron Group, Horace Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.19237, 33.18787 (WGS84)
Elevation 792
Relative position 2.7 MILES NE OF MINERAL MOUNTAIN (ELV. 3351)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mineral Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

Bureau of Land Management AZ BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 003S 011E 11 CENTER OF SE OF NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • AT THE HEAD OF BOX CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Pinal Schist
    Rock description Pinal Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.19237, 33.18787
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Nw Trending Faults And Fissures
Type of structure Local
Structure description W-Dipping Thrist Fault Through Mine

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Length 3M
    Width 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Vein-Fault Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH TERTIARY INTRUSION AND VOLCANISM. TERTIARY RHYOLITE 1 MILE SE OF MINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1887
Discoverer Herron

Mining district

District name Mineral Hill District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Francis Josyshon , C. L. Brainard
    First year 1948
  • Type Owner
    Owner L. A. Herring Until 1950

Comments on the production information

  • USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA LISTS PRODUCTION DATA UNDER HERRING MINE (1948), AND KITTY WHY GROUP (1941). THE USBM MINERALS YEARBOOK REVIEW OF 1940 STATES: "THERE WAS SUBSTANTIAL GAIN IN PRODUCTION OF GOLD IN THE MINERAL HILL DISTRICT DUE TO INCREASED OUTPUT OF GOLD ORE FROM THE SUNSET AND HORACE PROPERTIES".

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 45.72M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • VARIOUS OPEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION DATA FILE

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA,-KITTY WHY

  • Deposit

    USBM FILE DATA-CLUSTER #776

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USBM, MINERALS YEARBOOK REVIEW OF 1940, KEISER, H.D., EDITOR, 1941,P. 210

  • Deposit

    USGS OPEN FILE REPORT 78-468, 1978

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: LATE 1880'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1982 Laraba, Peter (Gest, Don E.) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.