The Money Metals Mine is a lead, gold, and silver mine located in Yavapai county, Arizona at an elevation of 7,402 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,402 Feet (2,256 Meters)
Commodity: Lead, Gold, Silver
Lat, Long: 34.4375, -112.38583
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Mine Description
The Money Metals mine, about 1 1/4 miles West of the Poland tunnel and Bigbug Mesa, is accessible by a road that branches northeastward from the Senator Highway at a point about 1/8 mile south of the Hassayampa bridge.
This deposit was located in 1897 by F. Reif who shipped some ore from the upper levels and sold the property. After some further development Work, the mine remained idle until 1928 when it was reopened. Since 1933, it has been operated by the Yavapai Gold and Silver Mining Company.
The country rock is gneissoid granite. A rhyolite-porphyry dike about 60 feet Wide follows the hanging wall of the Vein, and, a short distance farther West, a mass of diorite intrudes the granite.
Workings on the property include a 300-foot shaft, inclined 68° W., together with a total of approximately 1,400 feet of drifts on three levels. When visited in February, 1934, Water was kept from the 200-foot level With a Cornish pump.
As exposed underground, the Vein strikes N. 50° W. and dips 65° to W. In places, it has been offset by transverse faults. The vein filling consists of coarse-grained, grayish White quartz with irregular masses, veinlets, and disseminations of galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite. The Wall rock shows strong sericitic alteration. According to J. K. Kilfeder, mine superintendent, much of the vein contains about half an ounce of gold per ton. On the 200-foot level, the ore shoot is about 175 feet long by 2 to 5 feet wide.
Surface equipment on the property includes a 20-ton concentrator powered with two Dodge motors. The sulphide concentrates are reported to carry more than $200 in gold per ton.
Text from Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining, Arizona Bureau of Mines. Original 1934, revised 1967
Money Metals Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Money Metals Mine
Secondary: Snow Drift
Secondary: Snowdrift
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Zinc
Tertiary: Uranium
Tertiary: Vanadium
Location
State: Arizona
County: Yavapai
District: Walker 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: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
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: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Foliation In Precambrian Rocks Trends N35e To N45e
Type: L
Description: Dikes And Veins Parallel Foliation
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: None
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: MUCH OF THE VEIN CONTAINS 0.5 OZ. AU/TON
Materials
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Metahewettite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Tyuyamunite
Gangue: Quartz
Unknown: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Geology): DEPOSIT IS VEIN WHICH CUTS PRECAMBRIAN GRANODIORITE. PORPHYRY DIKES OF PROBABLE CRET-TERT AGE ASSOCIATED WITH VEINS.
Comment (Deposit): THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD M241488 OF D. BRIGHT AND S. CREASEY WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): WILSON, E.D., 1934, ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND GOLD MINING: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 137, P. 40.
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT FILE DATA.
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 782, P. 136.
Reference (Deposit): CHENOWETH, W.L., 1973, URANIUM DEPOSITS OF NE ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO GEOLOGIC SOCIETY 24TH FIELD GUIDEBOOK, P. 147-148.
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
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