Golden Idol Mine

The Golden Idol Mine is a gold mine located in Yavapai county, Arizona at an elevation of 5,400 feet.

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Mine Info

Name: Golden Idol Mine  

State:  Arizona

County:  Yavapai

Elevation: 5,400 Feet (1,646 Meters)

Commodity: Gold

Lat, Long: 34.60389, -112.03333

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Mine Description

The Golden Idol or Hillside mine is 1 1/2 miles by road north of Cherry, at an altitude of about 5,400 feet. Lindgren states that the property was Worked from 1907 to 1910 and Was equipped with a stamp mill and cyanide plant. During the past fifteen years, it has been held by the Verde Inspiration Company and the Western States Gold Mining Company, but has made little or no production. Lindgren continues: “There appear to be three veins on the property, and on one of them an incline 375 feet long has been sunk at a dip of 35° W. . . . Pits near the shaft show a foot vein of sheared granite with bunches of quartz. The quartz shows bluish-black streaks of tourmaline, also a little pyrite and chalcopyrite. It contains solution cavities with limonite. The Ore is said to have contained $7 to $12 to the ton."

Text from Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining, Arizona Bureau of Mines. Original 1934, revised 1967

Golden Idol Mine MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Golden Idol Mine
Secondary: Hillside


Commodity

Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Copper


Location

State: Arizona
County: Yavapai
District: Cherry Creek District


Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.


Holdings

Not available


Workings

Type: Underground


Ownership

Not available


Production

Not available


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S


Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland


Mineral Deposit Model

Not available


Orebody

Form: LENSES, PODS


Structure

Type: L
Description: None - Quartz Diorite Unfoliated


Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: None


Rocks

Not available


Analytical Data

Analytical Data: $7 TO $12 PER TON ( 1926


Materials

Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz
Unknown: Pyrite


Comments

Comment (Geology): DEPOSIT IS QUARTZ VEIN WHICH CUTS QUARTZ DIORITE


References

Reference (Deposit): ANDERSON, C.A. AND CREASEY, S.C., 1958 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE JEROME AREA, YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER 308 , P. 175

Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 782, P. 106


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