The Philadelphia Mine is a gold mine located in Yavapai county, Arizona at an elevation of 5,942 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,942 Feet (1,811 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 34.21611, -112.33861
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Mine Description
This property, which is on the Nelson and Gladiator veins, northeast of the Crown King, has been described by Lindgren as follows: “The War Eagle Gladiator is a persistent vein traceable on the surface for at least 5,000 feet and developed by shafts and tunnels. It has doubtless yielded a considerable production of gold from oxidized quartzose ore near the surface. The strike is N. 20° E. also traceable for a considerable distance and striking N. 10° E. It is exposed at the shaft 250 feet deep near the top of the ridge at an altitude of 7,000 feet and has also been opened by the Philadelphia tunnel at 800 feet from the portal. The tunnel follows this vein for 3,000 feet but without reaching ore. The same vein is also opened by an upper tunnel 280 feet above the Philadelphia adit. In these workings, however, the Nelson vein shows with a filling 2 to 5 feet thick, consisting of ankerite, with scant sulphides; it dips generally 60° to 80° W., but in places steeply east. If the Nelson vein is identical with the vein at the shaft 1,000 feet higher up on the ridge, a change has taken place in the filling, for here it shows a quartz gangue with gold and silver amounting to $20 a ton.
"Further explorations have been made to find the Gladiator vein on the tunnel level, but so far without definite result."
Philadelphia Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Philadelphia Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Location
State: Arizona
County: Yavapai
District: Tiger District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: 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
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Veins Trend N20e, Parallel To Foliation In Precambrian Metamorphic Rocks
Type: L
Description: Veins Trend N20e
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: None
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Paleocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): A SECOND VEIN: N 10 E, 70 W
Comment (Geology): THE GRANODIORITE IS A ROUGHLY CIRCULAR, 2.5 MI-DIAMETER STOCK WHICH INTRUDES PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHIC AND PLUTONIC ROCKS
Comment (Production): ITEM ( 8 ) IS ESTIMATED FROM $ 100,000 PRODUCTION AT $ 20.67 PER OUNCE AU.
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 782, P. 169
Reference (Deposit): ELSING, M.J. AND HEINEMAN, R.E., 1936 , ARIZONA METAL PRODUCTION: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 140 , P. 101
Reference (Production): A.B.M. BULLETIN 140 , P. 101 .
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