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Yellow Jacket Mine

Producer in Santa Cruz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Silver
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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 10109794
MRDS ID M241297
Record type Site
Current site name Yellow Jacket Mine
Related records 10137461

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.31541, 31.49707 (WGS84)
Elevation 1366
Relative position 1.2 MILES SE OF FRAGUITA PEAK (ELV. 5369)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Cruz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bartlett Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Atascosa Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio De La Concepcion(hydrologic unit)

Rio De La Concepcion(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Coronado 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 Santa Cruz

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 022S 010E 21;22 CENTER OF E2 OF E2 (21); CENTER OF W2 OF W2 (22) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • AT THE HEAD OF YELLOW JACKET WASH; ABOUT 2 MILES W OF ORO BLANCO RANCH. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Secondary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Silver Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Vein Oxidized To Iron Oxides And Small Amount Of Chrysocolla

Analytical data

Result 200+ TONS OF ORE AVERAGING ABOUT 1.5 OZ/TON AU
Result 1.6 OZ/TON AG
Result MINOR CU
Result SILVER: GOLD RATIO ABOUT 9 TO 1

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff > Welded Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.31541, 31.49707
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw-Trending Fault Zones; 3 Main Parallel Veins Intersected By Cross Faults (Yellow Jacket, Phoenix, And Green Veins)

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NW-SE
    Dip STEEPLY NE
    Width 9.14M
  • General form TABULAR
    Dip STEEPLY NE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins Within A Nw Shear Zone 10-30 Ft Wide.

Comments on the geologic information

  • POOR SURFACE EXPOSURES; NO SUBSURFACE DATA; PROPERTY TRAVERSED BY 2 PARALLEL DIABASE DIKES THAT STRIKE NW-SE AND DIP NEARLY VERTICALLY TO NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1900
Year of last production 1938

Mining district

District name Yellow Jacket District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner North Star Mines
    First year 1938
  • Type Owner
    Owner Charlie Lemons , B. Johnson , Apache International Mining Co.
    First year 1979

Comments on the production information

  • ONE OF OLDEST MINES IN THE AREA DATING BACK TO THE 1800'S; INTERMITTENTLY PRODUCTIVE THROUGH 1938.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 365.76M
    Overall depth 76.2M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS NOW CAVED CONSISTS OF A MAIN SHAFT (250 FT) THAT SERVES FOUR LEVELS INVOLVING 1200 FT OF DRIFTS AND SHORT CROSS CUTS; A SECOND SHAFT (62-FT); 200 FT CROSS CUT NW OF THE MAIN SHAFT

Comments on development

  • PAST OWNERS INCLUDE: C.A. JOHNSON (1959), WILLIAM C. BRADBURY; PAST OPERATORS INCLUDE: REAR AND SETKA (1934), T.E. KELSO (1932 AND 1933), YELLOW JACKET MINES CO. (1907); COMPRISED OF TWO PATENTED CLAIMS: (YELLOW JACKET AND THE PHOENIX) AND SIX UNPATENTED CLAIMS; THE YELLOW JACKET CLAIM WAS PATENTED IN 1883, AND THE PHOENIX CLAIM IN 1887; OPERATOR IN 1895 WAS THE PITTSBURGH CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KNIGHT, L.H., 1970, STRUCTURE AND MINERALIZATION OF THE ORO BLANCO MINING DISTRICT, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA; PHD. DISSERTATION, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

  • Deposit

    USBM - ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    USBM FILE DATA - CLUSTER #73 - YELLOW JACKET MINE

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA: JELLOW JACKET MINE FILE

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S. B., 1975, ABM BULL 191, P. 69

  • Deposit

    ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 191, P. 69

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN IN SHEAR ZONE 10 TO 30 FT WIDE CONTAINING BLOCKS OF DARK BLUISH GRAY QUARTZ; RHYOLITE DIKES HAVE INTRUDED THE VEIN AND ADJACENT WALL ROCKS; YELLOW JACKET VEIN AVERAGES 20 FT WIDE AND DIPS 70 NE; PHOENIX VEIN AVERAGES 11 FT WIDE AND DIPS 85 SW; GREEN VEIN AVERAGES 2 FT WIDE AND DIPS 40 NE; CLAIMS COVER ABOUT 40 ACRES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 Laraba, Peter (Calder, Susan) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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