Niagra Mine

Past Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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. 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. Reserves and resources
  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 10104151
MRDS ID M800366
Record type Site
Current site name Niagra Mine
Alternate or previous names Key Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.84686, 34.19977 (WGS84)
Elevation 1012
Relative position ABOUT 1.5 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF TENDERFOOT HILL.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Congress(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bradshaw Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(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)

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 Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 010N 006W 23 NE Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • SHAFT LOCATED SOUTHEAST OF CONGRESS MINE SHAFT IN SECTION 23.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Silver Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) None

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.84686, 34.19977

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Granite Is Massive And Unfoliated
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Parallel Andesite Dikes Which Trend E-W To Ne And Dip At Low Angles, Less Than 40 Deg.

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES
    Strike N75W
    Dip 40-50N
    Thickness 1.22M
    Width 609.6M
    Depth to bottom 609.6M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing, Igneous Activity

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1883
Discoverer Dennis May
Year of first production 1894
Year of last production 1943

Mining district

District name Martinez District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Findley, Mcdonald, Phillips
    First year 1943

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FROM THIS MINE INCLUDED WITH THAT OF CONGRESS MINE.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1986
    Total resources 158000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 8.47 g/mt Gold Major 1986

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 624.84M
    Overall length 457.2M

Comments on the workings information

  • EARLY DEVELOPMENT INVOLVED 3 SHAFTS OF 1,000 FT, 2,050 FT, 1,800 FT DEEP RESPECTIVELY. AFTER 1936, WORK WAS BEING DONE ON A SHAFT 250 FT DEEP.

Comments on development

  • ORIGINALLY, THE NIAGRA WAS WORKED AS PART OF THE CONGRESS MINES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AZ. DEPT. MIN. RESOURCES FILE DATA (CONGRESS MINE)

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE (NIAGRA, KEY)

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA

  • Reserve-Resource

    NIEMUTH, 1987.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOST PRODUCTION FROM THE NIAGRA (200,000 TONS) IS CREDITED TO THE CONGRESS MINE IN PRODUCTION DATA. ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit THIS RECORD IS NOT A DUPLICATE OF CONGRESS MINE, RECORD NO. M003323.
Deposit DEPOSIT IS QUARTZ VEIN WHICH CUTS PRECAMBRIAN GRANITE. VEIN USUALLY ASSOCIATED WITH ANDESITE AND MAFIC DIKES WHICH DIP SHALLOWLY TO THE NORTH.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1981 Roth, Frances A. (Dewitt, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 12-SEP-1994 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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