USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
Tillie Starbuck Group
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 6 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Slate Creek Tunnel, Patented Claims M S 3347, Artic Tunnel
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Au-Ag-Pb mine located near the head of Slate Creek Canyon, on the south slope of Mount Tritle at 7,000 feet of altitude. Owned by Maj. A.J. Pickrell; and, H.L. Williams & Associates. Last produced 1939. Claims extend in…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 6 adit symbols
- Adit : Groom Creek , 1974
View individual source records (3)
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.
- 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
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Dolomite
- Milky Quartz
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Proustite
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
View all 11 reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Dolomite
- Milky Quartz
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Proustite
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
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 (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 55870
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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