Tiger Mine (Tiger property; Old Tiger Mine; California General No. 70; Patented claims 1182 - 2902 & 2415; Dis Loc. Tiger lode MS claim Gen. 105 & 106), Crown King, Tiger District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 34°11'6"N
Longitude: 112°21'20"W
‡Ref.: The Resources of Arizona - A Manual of Reliable Information Concerning the Territory, compiled by Patrick Hamilton (1881), Prescott, AZ: 50.
University of Arizona Bull. 41 (1916-17), Mineralogy of Useful Minerals in Arizona: 54.
Yavapai Magazine (1918) June, 1918: 11 (Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, AZ).
Lindgren, W. (1926), Ore deposits of the Jerome and Bradshaw Mountains quadrangles, Arizona, USGS Bull. 782: 164-165, 172-173.
Elsing, M.J. and Heineman, E.S. (1936) Arizona Metal Production, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 140: 102.
Guiteras, J.R. (1936) Gold Mining and Milling in the Black Canyon area, Yavapai County, Arizona. U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 6905: 43.
Dewitt (1976) M.S. thesis, University of Arizona, 150pp.
U.S. Bureau of Mines - Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mining Technology file data.
USGS Crown King Quadrangle map.
USGS Skull Valley Quadrangle map.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management Mining District Sheet 213.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Tiger Mine file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Tiger Gold Mine file.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10027878, MRDS ID #M004314; and Dep. ID #10048077, MRDS ID #M800053; and Dep. ID #10135126, MAS ID #0040251491; and, Dep. ID #10210324, MAS ID #0040250391; and, Dep. ID #10259286, MAS ID #0040251490.
A former underground Ag-Cu-Au-Pb-Zn mine located on 19 claims (9 patented & 10 unpatented), 2 miles SSW of Crown King at 6,100 feet of altitude. Reopened 1910 and closed 1911. Owned by the Yavapai Consolidated Gold-Silver-Copper Co. Discovered by Mr. D.C. Moreland. Claims extend into the W½NE¼ and the E½SW¼ of sec. 27, and the E½NW¼ and the E½SW¼NW¼ of sec. 34; and, the SWSENE of sec. 22.
Mineralization is a vein deposit. The principal vein outcrops boldly about 100 feet below the shaft collar in a small gulch. It is here a composite quartz lode 20 feet wide with a body of quartz 4 feet thick on the hanging wall. The strike ranges from N.10ºE. to N.15ºW. and dips 60º to 70ºW. Ore several feet wide consists almost exclusively of white quartz, in places rather dense and flinty. Ore control was faulting and shearing. Ore concentration was oxidation of near surface ores. No alteration noted.
Local rock is the Crown King Granodiorite (informal name) which is in contact with Yavapai Schist a short distance south of the mine. Also present are rhyolite dikes.
Area features include veins that trend N20-25E, parallel to the foliation in Precambrian metamorphic rocks.
Workings feature a 3-compartment, 300 foot deep shaft, plus a shaft at least 100 feet deep (1881). Later, a vertical shaft 750 feet deep with several levels with drifts several hundred feet long on each side of the shaft. A 10-stamp mill and roaster was erected. Production was an estimated $750,000, mostly silver (period values).
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