Oro Flame Mine (Oro Flame property; American Eagle Mine; Mormon Patent; Old Ohio Patent MS 2025; Gold Bug Mine; Sterling property; Mescal claim; American Eagle Patent; Oro Grand Patent MS 2024), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 34°27'10"N
Longitude: 112°29'59"W
‡Ref.: Yavapai Magazine (1921): 10 (Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, AZ).
Wilson, E.D., Cunningham, J.B., and Butler, G.M. (1934), Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining (revised 1967), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 137: 41-42.
Elsing, M.J. and Heineman, E.S. (1936) Arizona Metal Production, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 140: 101.
Niemuth, N.J. (1987), Arizona Mineral Development 1984-1986, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Directory 29, 46 pp.
USGS Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-997.
U.S. Bureau of Mines - Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology file data.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Oro Flame file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources American Eagle Mine file.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management Mining District Sheet 244.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10109866, MRDS ID #M800369; and, Dep. ID #10186617, MAS ID #0040250956; and, Dep. ID #10048265, MRDS ID #M800386.
A former underground Au-Ag-Cu-Pb-Zn mine located on the SE side near Hassayampa Creek about 6 miles South of Prescott. Discovered 1866. Owned by H.K. Grove & Associates (1928- ). Produced 1910-1955. Claims are also in sec. 29, T12.5N, R2W, and sec. 31, T13N, R2W.
Mineralization is a vein within a fault zone that strikes N.20ºW. and dips 76ºNE. The fault zone separates gneissic granite on the NE from schist with diorite on the SW. Ore occurs mainly as narrow, vertical lenses, seams & bunches that trend northward. Massive grayish-white quartz with irregular masses, veinlets & disseminations of sulfides. The gold is mainly in the sulfides. Alteration includes minor to significant sericitization.
Workings include a 320 foot deep shaft, an adit and several 100 foot long drifts. Above the 220 level it is toped out 400 feet long by 3½ feet wide. The oro Grande shaft is on the NW side of the Creek. A 20-stamp mill was erected on the property.
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