Description

Cash Mines Co., Hassayampa District, Yavapai County, Arizona, 10 stamp mill, amalgamation and concentration, c. 1903.

The Cash Mine was a lead and gold mine located in Yavapai County, Arizona at an elevation of 7,001 feet.

The following text is taken from these sources: Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining, Arizona Bureau of Mines. Original 1934, revised 1967; (55) Lindgren, W., work cited, pp. 121–22; (56) U. S. Geol. Survey Geol. Atlas, Bradshaw Mountains folio (No. 126).1905.

“The Cash vein (55), about 1,000 feet east of the Senator outcrops, is probably the extension of one of the Senator veins. Prior to 1883, it was opened by three shallow shafts. It was extensively worked from 1900 to 1902 and has been reopened for short periods at various times since. Lindgren says: “The mine is developed by a shaft 400 feet deep and has a 10-stamp mill with plates and concentration. The value of the total production could not be ascertained."

“Amphobolite schist crops out on the road between the Senator veins and the Cash. The shaft dump shows Yavapai schist injected with diorite. Dikes of normal rhyolite-porphyry about 10 feet wide crop out along the road to the mine. The vein strikes N. 40° E. and dips 60° SE.”

Jaggar and Palache (56) describe the vein, which was being worked in 1900, as follows:

“The ore body in this mine is in the form of a series of well-defined lenses that have a maximum thickness of 2 1/2 feet and occur in sericite schist which is in places black ahd graphitic. The ore is rich in sulphides, chiefly galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite, contains some tetrahedrite in quartz, and is characterized by comb and banded structure, the center of the vein being generally open and lined with beautiful crystals of all the vein minerals. A rich body of free gold ore was found in this mine at a depth of 200 feet from the surface.”

Lindgren continues: “The ore seen on the dumps in 1922 contains predominating quartz with some calcite and more or less pyrite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite. Some of the sphalerite is coated with covellite. On the main ore dump was noted banded ore of magnetite and pyrite like that in parts of the Senator mine."

“Although the underground workings could not be visited, it seems clear that there are here two different kinds of veins, one of which contains magnetite, specularite, and adularia, in addition to pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and galena, the place of the iron oxides in the succession being between pyrite and chalcopyrite . . . Ore of a second type carries apparently only chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite.”