Vulture Mine (Talmage; East Vulture; Sheridan; Conkling; Van Buren; Custer; Vindicator group; Cook; Elmore; Texhoma; Texona; Sherman; Pit Gold), Vulture, Vulture District, Vulture Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 33°49'18"N
Longitude: 112°50'6"W
‡Ref.: The Resources of Arizona - A Manual of Reliable Information Concerning the Territory, compiled by Patrick Hamilton (1881), Scottsdale, AZ: 76.
Silliman, B. (1879), Jarosite (with gold), American Journal of Science: 17: 73.
Dana, E.S. (1892) System of Mineralogy, 6th. Edition, New York: 774, 1094.
The History of Arizona, Chap. X: 92-93.
Arizona Mining Journal, various issues, 1920's & 1030's.
Hutchinson (1921), Engineering and Mining Journal: 111(7): 298-302.
Wilson, E.D., et al (1934), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 137: 157-162.
Metzger, O.H. (1938), Gold mining and milling in the Wickenburg area, Maricopa and Yavapai Counties, Arizona: US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 6991: 47.
Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 561.
Galbraith, F.W. & Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 64.
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 261.
USGS 15 minute Vulture Mountains topo. map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources (ADMR) Vulture Mine file.
AZ Dept. Min. Resources (ADMR) Industrial Minerals Report: 38.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10027543; and, Dep. ID #10138010.
A gold mine located about 14 road miles SW of Wickenburg and some 60 miles NW of Phoenix, on the southern margin of the Vulture Mountains, in secs. 25, 26 & 35, T.6N., R.6W. & secs. 30 & 31, T.6N., R.5W. Discovered and held by Henry Wickenburg, then by the Arizona Central Mining Co. (1879-1888), the Central Arizona Mining Co., the Vulture Mines Co. (1908-1917), then D.R. Finlayson (1927-1930), and the United Verde Extension Mining Co. (U.V.X.) (1930-1931).
Mineralization is an orebody nearly 100 feet wide. The Vulture vein occurs within a fault zone with a hanging wall of porphyry and a footwall of talcose slate. At the 240 foot level the vein is 47 feet thick. Typical vein quartz is coarsely crystalline, locally cellular, and grayish-white to white. The outcrop is 1,000 feet long.
Discovered in October, 1863 and closed in 1873. Reopened and ultimately closed in 1888. Reactivated again in 1908 by the Vulture Mines Co. which located the faulted segment of the orebody. The old shaft was 390 feet deep with several levels and crosscuts (1881). An 80-stamp mill was installed about 1879. A 20 stamp mill was installed in 1910. The mine was operated until 1917 when the vein was again lost due to a fault. The U.V.X. sank a 500 foot deep shaft with 1,000 feet of lateral workings.
Production was some $1,850,000 in bullion (1867 to July, 1872), plus about $2,000,000 more (1879-1888), plus $2,839,375 (1908-1917) (all period values).
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