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Mammoth Mine (Hubbard Mine), Eureka District, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 34°33'59"N
Longitude: 113°14'40"W
‡Ref.: Wilson, E.D., et al (1934), Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Mining, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 137: 27-28.

Anderson, C.A. (1955) Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bagdad Area, Yavapai County, Arizona. USGS PP 278: 93.

US Atomic Energy Commission Preliminary Reconnaissance Report PRR-AP-86 (No. 803).

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Mammoth file.

USGS Prescott 1:250000 topo map.

MRDS database Dep. ID #10026927, MRDS ID #M001118; and, Dep. ID #10259146, MAS ID #0040251358; and, Dep. ID #10259532, MAS ID #0040251359.

A former surface and underground Cu-Au-Ag-U-Th-Mo mine owned by Hugh Hubbard & Associates. Discovered in 1906 by William and M.A. Lawler. NOTE: Alternate coordinates provided: 34.4889N, 112.9333W; and 34.5117N, 113.2603W.

Mineralization is a vein of coarse-grained, milky white quartz & calcite hosted in the Butte Falls Tuff and King Peak Rhyolite. The ore body is pipe-like and irregular. Associated rock units are diorite porphyry and aplite. Ore control was a breccia pipe. Concentration was oxidation at near surface. No alteration noted.

Workings include a 175 foot deep shaft.

Mineral List

Calcite
Chalcanthite
Chalcopyrite
Chrysocolla
Cuprite
Fluorite
Gold
Limonite
Malachite
Molybdenite
Muscovite
var: Sericite

Pyrite
Quartz
var: Milky Quartz



13 entries listed. 10 valid minerals.

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