Mohave County miner., 1906-05-05
Mineralized Mountains
of Mohave County.
Great Stretches of Uplands Car
rying all Known Minerals.

OF mining lanes In the territory OF Arl-
IONA. Every upland and far into the
level plain of the valley is scanned and
interlaced with veins of mineral bear
ing rock. The principal area of the
county is mountainous, there being at
least nine well defined ranges of noun
tains running from north to south. The
principal ranges are the Blue Ridge,
paralleling the Colorado river from
the Big Bend on the north to the Sac
in length and more than ten miles in
width, every foot of which is mineral
lied. In the central part of the coun-
ty is the Cerbat range, extending
northerly from Kingman to the Col
orado river, a distance of eighty three
miles. This mineral field is also about
ten miles in width and is wonderfully
mineralized, having yielded more than
any of the other ranges of the county
in gold, silver, lead and copper. The
Wallapai mountains are fifty miles in
length and the mineral area twelve
miles wide. The Grand Wash Cliffs
extend from blackberry to Utah and
in places are more than 40 miles in
width. The Peacock range runs from
blackberry to the head of the Big
Sardy valley, atolt 80 mills On the
east side of the Big Sandy valley are
the Aquarius mountains. This range
is mineralized in the neighbOrhOOd of
Burro Creek and into the Hillside
country, but north of that place the
naturalization is confined to isolated
veins, 50 far as yet discovered. This
is the only range in the county carry
ing wolfram and bismuth ores. The
Cottonwood range is separated on the
north from the Aquarius by small
creek ard extends to the south break
of the Grand Wash Cliffs. 1t is min
eralized in many places, the mines of
Wright Creek being in that range.
Along the Bill Williams Fork is a
small range, formerly known by the
range shows excellent naturalization
wherever the volcanic cap has been
eroded. South of the break of the
Blue Ridge mountains are the Cheme-
huevis. This range has produced
largely in placer and ledge gold and is
considered one of the best of the min
eral sections of the county. Embraced
in these mineralized ranges are fully
5000 square miles of land, more than
Cne-half of the area of the county. In
this area can be found every mineral
known to science: gold, silver, lead
and copper predominating in produc-
ton.
Among the minerals found in the
mountains of this county are the fol-
lowing:
Anthony. arsenic, aluminium, bis
muth, chromium, copper, 6ourine,
gold, iron, lead, lime, magnesium,
olybdenum, manganese, silver, sod
j IN, tungsten, vanadium, zinc. While
there are many other minerals to be
found, these are the principal ores of
value. Corundum is also found in
small quantities as is also the amethyst.
A large production of marketable tur-
quoise has been made by the mines at
Mineral Park. Two companies have
been developing and producing the
past two years, while private individ-
uals have made many sales of good
stones. In the south part of the Ger
bat range considerable vanadium ore
has been found, but it has not been
treated for its rare mineral, the own
ers of the property prefering to sell
their product to the smelter for the
gold and silver content.
In Diamond Canyon, north of Peach
Springs, is a large deposit of garnet.
suitable for abraisives. This material
is considered one of the best of all the
abrasive materials now in use for the
treatment and finishing of shoe leath-
er. Being but twenty miles from the
railroad it ought to become of consid-
cradle Importance as an industry of
the county. Near Peach Springs there
are number of big lime kilns now
shipping their product all over the
coast. The lime is said to be the finest
quality. Over an area of several thou
sand square miles can be found beds of