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Malapai Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, 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. 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 10109864
MRDS ID M800361
Record type Site
Current site name Malapai Mine
Alternate or previous names Malapai Group
Related records 10234599

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.65047, 34.31033 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position ABOUT 2.9 MILES EAST NORTH EAST OF THE TOP OF PARKER MESA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Peeples Valley(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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 011N 004W 11 SW OF NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • UTM LOCATION MEASURED TO SHAFT ON MALAPAI CLAIM. 4.2 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF KIRKLAND JUNCTION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Trend Northerly

Ore body information

  • Strike NORTHERLY
    Dip STEEP
    Thickness 0.91M
    Width 131.06M
    Depth to bottom 131.06M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS QUARTZ VEIN WHICH CUTS PROTEROZOIC PLUTONIC ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1914
Year of last production 1939

Mining district

District name Zonia District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Winslow Gold Mining Co.
    First year 1939
  • Type Owner
    Owner Hassayampa Gold Mining Co.
    First year 1938

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.037HA
    Length 341.38M
    Overall depth 131.06M
    Overall length 128.02M
    Overall width 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS INCLUDE AN INCLINED SHAFT OF 430 FT. MAIN WORKINGS ON THE 200 FT LEVEL

Comments on development

  • IN 1914, THE MALAPAI MINING CO. WAS REWORKING AN OLD SHAFT ON THE PROPERTY CONSISTING OF 16 CLAIMS; HASSAYAMPA GOLD MINING CO. LATER OWNED 21 CLAIM INCLUDING THESE. MAIN WORKINGS ARE ON THE MALAPAI AND LAST CHANCE PATENTED CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES

  • Deposit

    ABGMT - USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT MIN RESOURCES FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 3 FOOT WIDE VEIN WITH 25 TO 35 FT LONG ORE SHOOTS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1981 Roth, Frances A. (Dewitt, Ed) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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