Mine detail: Tip Top Mine

Previously called 'ConquerorTip Top Mine Includes Group of 3 Patented Claims: Tip Top, Keystone,And Joker, and 3 Unpatented Claims: Tip Top South, Very Top,And Black Jack'

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Location

Lat / long:

34.05256, -112.24713

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver
Secondary:	Gold, Tungsten
Tertiary:	Zinc, Copper, Lead, Arsenic
Ore:	Bornite, Cerargyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite, Wolframite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR, PINCH AND SWELL
Other material:	Pyrite
Discovery year:	1875

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1875
Last production ended:	1942

Geology

Host type:	Quartz Monzonite,Mica Schist
Associated rock:	Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite;
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Batholith (Quartz Monzonite) Rather Massive And Structureless
Alteration processes:	None

References

MRDS	M002345
DEP	10109015
Reference	{Deposit:: USGS BULL 782, P. 180}{Deposit:: ELSING, M.J. AND HEINEMAN, R.E., 1936 , ARIZONA METAL PRODUCTION: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 140 , P. 103}{Deposit:: LEMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962 , TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S.; U.S.G.S. MAP, MR - 25 .}{Deposit:: USBM IC 8078, P. 29-30}{Deposit:: ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA}{Deposit:: ARIZONA DEPT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA}{Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL, V. 7, NO. 12, P. 5-6, 1924}{Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL, V. 20, NO. 5, P. 3-5, 1936}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: A.B.M. BULLETIN 140 , P. 103 .}
Reporter	Gere, W., Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.), Dewitt, Ed H.