USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
Silver Flake Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Mining district
- Groom Creek District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Au-Pb-Zn-Ag-U-V-Cu-Co occurrence/mine. Discovered 1885. Produced 1895-1954. Mineralization is a 2 to 4 foot wide vein with well-defined wall rock and a tabular ore body. Ore control was faulting and shearing. Ore concentration w…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Cobaltite
- Galena
- Gold
- Pyrrhotite
- Sphalerite
- Chalcopyrite
View all 14 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Cobaltite
- Galena
- Gold
- Pyrrhotite
- Sphalerite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cobaltite
- Galena
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Sphalerite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 54350
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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