The Mammoth Group is a gold mine located in Pinal county, Arizona.
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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.
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Mammoth Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Mammoth Group
Secondary: Young Mines
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Manganese
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Arizona
County: Pinal
District: Goldfield District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1893
Year Last Production: 1978
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
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
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: 2 N-Trending, Steeply W Dipping Faults
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: All Mined Material Was Oxidized
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M002831 WITH RE CORD M002831 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEOD ORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Development): OPERATORS INCLUDED YOUNG MINES CO, GOLDFIELD MINES, E.L. JONES, E .H. SHUMWAY, HEBNER & FUNK; OPEN 1893-1894 WHEN A FLOOD BURIED WORKING S. BOUGHT BY G.U. YOUNG IN 1914. SPORADIC OPERATION UNTIL 1929. RECENT CYANIDE LEACHING. 88 CLAIMS IN 1920
Comment (Workings): WIDTH BELOW THE 426 FT LEVEL RANGES FROM 16-36 FT, ALL WORKED FOR 1240 FT LENGTH. WORKED EXTENSIVELY TO 200 FT LEVEL BEFORE 1914
Comment (Geology): TERT VOLCANIC FIELDS ARE ADJACENT TO THIS MINE, BOTH NW & SE OF TH E DRAINAGE WHERE IT IS LOCATED
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979
References
Reference (Deposit): ABM FILE DATA
Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, 1972, USGS BULL 1355, 103 P.
Reference (Deposit): TENNEY, 1927-29, HISTORY OF MINING IN ARIZONA, SPECIAL COLLECTION, UNIV OF AZ LIBRARY & ABM LIBRARY, P. 344-45
Reference (Deposit): WILSON, ET AL, 1934, ABM BULL 137
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