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