The Buckeye Vein Group is a lead and silver mine located in Yuma county, Arizona at an elevation of 1,339 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
Elevation: 1,339 Feet (408 Meters)
Commodity: Lead, Silver
Lat, Long: 33.04167, -114.17500
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Buckeye Vein Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Buckeye Vein Group
Secondary: Castle Dome
Secondary: New Dil-New Chance No. 1
Secondary: Lady Edith
Secondary: Big Dome -Dusty No. 4
Secondary: New Chance No. 4
Secondary: Hopkins
Secondary: Miller
Secondary: Norma
Secondary: Caledona
Secondary: William Penn
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Gold
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Vanadium
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Location
State: Arizona
County: Yuma
District: Castle Dome District
Land Status
Land ownership: Federal
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.
Administrative Organization: Kofa Game Range
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Mrs. Eliza De Luce
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: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: LENSES & BRANCHING VEIN
Structure
Type: L
Description: Cross Fractures
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Shales Somewhat Chloritized, Vein Wall Rocks Altered To Quartz, Ca Lcite, & Sericite
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Anglesite
Ore: Vanadinite
Ore: Mimetite
Ore: Hydrozincite
Ore: Wulfenite
Ore: Smithsonite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Barite
Unknown: Fluorite
Comments
Comment (Commodity): ALSO TRACES OF BA, AS, SE, BE, SB
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964); 01
Comment (Production): WORKED BEFORE 1870 BUT ITS TOTAL PRODUCTION IS UNKNOWN
Comment (Development): 1 PATENTED CLAIM, NUMEROUS UNPATENTED CLAIMS. PREVIOUS OWNERS & O PERATORS INCLUDE MILLER & NAGLE, MILLER & HOPKINS, CASTLE DOME MINING & SMELTING CO, GONDOLFO & SANQUINETTI, DE LUCE
Comment (Workings): NUMEROUS INCLINED SHAFTS
Comment (Geology): PYRITE METACRYSTALS, ALTERED TO LIMONITE, ARE PRESENT.
Comment (Deposit): THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M030339 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENU M FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): KEITH, 1978, ABGMT BULL 192.
Reference (Deposit): WILSON, 1933, ABM BULL 134.
Reference (Deposit): WILSON, 1951, ABM BULL 158.
Reference (Deposit): ABGMT FILE DATA
Reference (Deposit): PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
Reference (Production): KEITH, 1978, P. 119. WILSON, 1951, P .110
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