Democrat Mine

Occurrence in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Arsenic, Gold, Silver, Copper, Uranium
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. Ore body information
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095790
MRDS ID M800314
Record type Site
Current site name Democrat Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81996, 35.04392 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 18 MI SE OF KINGMAN BY AIR, Placed Near Center Of Section 12

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dean Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Valentine(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Williams(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Sandy(hydrologic unit)

Bill Williams(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(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 Mohave

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 019N 015W 12 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR CREST OF HUALAPAI MOUNTAINS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Uraninite Ore
Fluorite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chloritization, Sericitization, Kaolinization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N15W
    Dip 42-45E
    Width 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1953
Discoverer Dick Hart

Mining district

District name Maynard District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Dick Hart, Adrion Skinner, And Scott Ellis (Sevier Minerals)
    First year 1953
  • Type Owner
    Owner Mrs Sylvia Vukoye
    First year 1953

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HART & HETLAND, 1953, USAEC RME-4026

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-82 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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