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Button Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper
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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. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088889
MRDS ID M800326
Record type Site
Current site name Button Mine
Related records 10234602

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.40574, 34.16589 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 3 MILES SE OF THOMPSON BUTTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Minnehaha(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 31 SW OF SW OF NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION OF THE MAP HAS NOT BEEN SURVEYED. LOCATED 0.3 MILES NORTH OF THE SITE OF OLD MINNEHAHA

Commodities

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

Materials information

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

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Brady Butte Granodiorite
    Rock description Brady Butte Granodiorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Amphibolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Proterozoic
    Chronological age 1765
    Dating method U-Pb (zircon)
    Type of media Zircon

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.40574, 34.16589
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Foliation In Grandiorite Trends N10e To N25e
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Crosscut Or Parallel Folliation

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS QUARTZ VEIN WHICH CUTS PROTEROZOIC GRANODIORITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1901
Year of last production 1942

Mining district

District name Minnehaha District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Bledsoe, William
    First year 1964

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 228.6M
    Overall depth 121.92M
    Overall length 228.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • 200 FT INCLINE SHAFT COMPLETED IN 1966.

Comments on development

  • THE MINE WAS ACTIVE IN OCT. 1961, FEB. 1962, AND OCT. 1962, MR BLEDSOE COMPLETED A 200 FT. INCLINED SHAFT AND WAS WORKING A SMALL 1 TON/DAY MILL (1966). NO PRODUCTION DATA GIVEN FOR THE 1960'S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 782, P.177-178

  • Deposit

    ABM BULL 137, P.60

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO INFORMATION ON DEPOSIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1981 Laraba, Peter (Dewitt, Ed) 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

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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