The Cash Mine is a lead and gold mine located in Yavapai county, Arizona at an elevation of 7,001 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,001 Feet (2,134 Meters)
Commodity: Lead, Gold
Lat, Long: 34.42, -112.41694
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Mine Description
The Cash vein (55), about 1,000 feet east of the Senator outcrops, is probably the extension of one of the Senator veins. Prior to 1883, it was opened by three shallow shafts. It was extensively worked from 1900 to 1902 and has been reopened for short periods at various times since. Lindgren says: “The mine is developed by a shaft 400 feet deep and has a 10-stamp mill with plates and concentration. The value of the total production could not be ascertained."
“Amphobolite schist crops out on the road between the Senator veins and the Cash. The shaft dump shows Yavapai schist injected with diorite. Dikes of normal rhyolite-porphyry about 10 feet wide crop out along the road to the mine. The vein strikes N. 40° E. and dips 60° SE.”
Jaggar and Palache (56) describe the vein, which was being worked in 1900, as follows:
“The ore body in this mine is in the form of a series of well-defined lenses that have a maximum thickness of 2 1/2 feet and occur in sericite schist which is in places black ahd graphitic. The ore is rich in sulphides, chiefly galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite, contains some tetrahedrite in quartz, and is characterized by comb and banded structure, the center of the vein being generally open and lined with beautiful crystals of all the vein minerals. A rich body of free gold ore was found in this mine at a depth of 200 feet from the surface.”
Lindgren continues: “The ore seen on the dumps in 1922 contains predominating quartz with some calcite and more or less pyrite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite. Some of the sphalerite is coated with covellite. On the main ore dump was noted banded ore of magnetite and pyrite like that in parts of the Senator mine."
“Although the underground workings could not be visited, it seems clear that there are here two different kinds of veins, one of which contains magnetite, specularite, and adularia, in addition to pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and galena, the place of the iron oxides in the succession being between pyrite and chalcopyrite . . . Ore of a second type carries apparently only chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite.”
(55) Lindgren, W., work cited, pp. 121–22.
(56) U. S. Geol. Survey Geol. Atlas, Bradshaw Mountains folio (No. 126).1905.
Text from Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining, Arizona Bureau of Mines. Original 1934, revised 1967
Cash Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cash Mine
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Zinc
Tertiary: Semiprecious Gemstone
Tertiary: Quartz
Location
State: Arizona
County: Yavapai
District: Mt Union 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: Past 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: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Foliation In Precambrian Rocks Trends N35e To N50e
Type: L
Description: Dikes And Veins Parallel Foliation
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: None
Rocks
Name: Meta-Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age in Years: 1760.000000+-
Material Analyzed: Zircon
Age Young: Proterozoic
Name: Amphibolite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age in Years: 1760.000000+-
Dating Method: U-Pb (zircon)
Material Analyzed: Zircon
Age Young: Proterozoic
Name: Slate
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age in Years: 1760.000000+-
Dating Method: U-Pb (zircon)
Material Analyzed: Zircon
Age Young: Proterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Unknown: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Location): ON THE BORDER OF SEC. 36 (T12.5N R2W) AND SEC. 1 (T12N R2W).
Comment (Production): ITEM (8) IS ESTIMATED PRODUCTION FROM $200,000 AT $20.67 PER OUNCE.
Comment (Deposit): DEPOSIT IS VEIN WHICH CUTS PRECAMBRIAN METAVOLCANIC AND METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS. QUARTZ CRYSTALS OCCUR IN FRACTURED GRANITIC ROCK.
Comment (Geology): RHYOLITE PORPHYRY DIKES OF PROBABLE LCRET-TERT AGE ASSOCIATED WITH VEINS.
Comment (Deposit): THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD TC38995 WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Production): A.B.M. BULLETIN 140 , P. 101
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 7828 P. 121.
Reference (Deposit): ELSING, M.J. AND HEINEMAN, R.E., 1936, ARIZONA METAL PRODUCTION: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 140 , P. 101.
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT AND ADMR FILE DATA.
Reference (Deposit): PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P
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