USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
Tillie Starbuck Prospect
Source Corroborated Gold Underground 7 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Mining district
- Mount Union District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
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.
- 7 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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Sphalerite
- Ankerite
- Dolomite
- Milky Quartz
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Proustite
View all 13 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Sphalerite
- 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 (7)
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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