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Moss Mine

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State: Arizona
County: Mohave
Elevation: 2,165 feet
Latitude: 35.1000009
Longitude: -114.4477388
Type: Gold


The Moss mine is about 7 miles northwest of Oatman and 2 miles north of Silver Creek.

This deposit was probably the first to be worked in the district. During the early days, it made a reported production of $240,000 from near the surface. Since that time, considerable intermittent development has been carried on, but little ore has been mined.

The vein strikes N. 78° W., dips 70° S., and occurs in the Moss quartz monzonite-porphyry. It forms a lode from 20 to more than 100 feet wide, with the widest portion at the western end, and is traceable on the surface for more than a mile east of the mine.

The vein filling consists of fine-grained white quartz and calcite, with stringers of colorless to pale-green fluorite. The largest ore shoot consisted of free gold in iron-stained quartz but extended to a depth of only 65 feet. Several smaller ore bodies were mined from near the surface at various places along the vein.
Workings on the Moss vein include a 230-foot shaft with about 750 feet of workings, about 900 feet of tunnel, and some irregular surface openings. Ransome states that the vein on the 220 level appears to be 90 feet wide and as a whole probably carries from 0.15 to 0.20 ounces of gold per ton.

Source: Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining, Bulletin137, Arizona Bureau of Mines. Revised 1967
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