USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
Fat Jack Mine
Source Corroborated Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Au-Ag-Amethyst mine located South of Crown King. Claim extends into the E½SE¼SE¼ of sec. 35. Please note this locality is currently (October 2013) under claim and trespassing and collecting without permission are pro…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Crown King , 1969
- Adit : Crown King , 1969
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- P. R And M H Helm · Source-reported owner · 1945
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Amethyst
- Anglesite
- Ankerite
- Baryte
- Cerussite
- Chalcocite
- Chrysocolla
- Covellite
View all 24 reported minerals
- Amethyst
- Anglesite
- Ankerite
- Baryte
- Cerussite
- Chalcocite
- Chrysocolla
- Covellite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Mottramite
- Native Gold
- Opal
- Osarizawaite
- Pyrite
- Pyromorphite
- Quartz
- Smoky Quartz
- Sphalerite
- Stolzite
- Wulfenite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 1 historical document
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 7698
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (24)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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