Monarch Mine

The Monarch Mine is a gold mine located in Yavapai county, Arizona at an elevation of 4,800 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Monarch Mine  

State:  Arizona

County:  Yavapai

Elevation: 4,800 Feet (1,463 Meters)

Commodity: Gold

Lat, Long: 34.6225, -112.02111

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Mine Description

The Monarch or Mocking Bird mine is at the eastern foot of the Black Hills, at an altitude of about 4,500 feet. It has been operated intermittently with stamp mills since 1886 and has probably produced more than any other mine in the district, but many of the old workings are caved. The country rock is fine-grained light colored granite which shows practically no alteration in the vein walls. The mineral deposit consists of several veins which strike N. and dip 32°-45°W. They are made up of lenses, several feet in maximum width, of coarsely crystalline White quartz vein 5 to 6 feet Wide, developed to a depth of 200 feet, ore is mostly free milling, but some galena and chalcopyrite are present.

The Etta, Gold Ring, and Conger mines, south of the Monarch, were producers during the eighties. The Conger is reported to have been recently worked in a small way by lessees. Lindgren says: “The Etta is mentioned in the Mint report for 1887 as a quartz vein 5 to 6 feet wide, developed to a depth of 200 feet, and containing ore of a value of $29 to the ton.”

The Pfau mine, according to J. S. Sessions, about 2 miles south-southeast of the Monarch, produced intermittently for about nine years prior to 1904.

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

Monarch Mine MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Monarch Mine
Secondary: Mockingbird
Secondary: Monarch Verde


Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver


Location

State: Arizona
County: Yavapai
District: Cherry Creek District


Land Status

Not available


Holdings

Not available


Workings

Type: Underground


Ownership

Owner Name: Wombacker


Production

Not available


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1912
Year Last Production: 1912
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
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: TABULAR


Structure

Not available


Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: None


Rocks

Not available


Analytical Data

Not available


Materials

Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Galena
Gangue: Chalcopyrite


Comments

Comment (Geology): QUARTZ VEIN IN QUARTZ DIORITE


References

Reference (Deposit): U.S.G.S. PP 308, GEOL MAP

Reference (Deposit): U.S.G.S. BULL 782, P. 105

Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 1324-C

Reference (Deposit): ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA


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