Mohave County is known as the second-highest gold producing county in Arizona, behind Yavapai County.
Mohave was also a producer of tungsten along with other notable minerals such as copper, zinc and lead.
Soldiers from the recently established Fort Mohave prospected the area, discovering gold east in the Cerbat Mountains. Yucca, a railroad town 24 miles south of Kingman, served as an order office and water fill station for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, known later as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that merged with the Burlington Railroad in 1995 and became the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway.
Water was pumped in from a variety of sources including the Boriana Well, which held an open hole storage of 260,000 gallons. This water source also supplies the Boriana Mine located 4 miles from the Antler deposit. The mine operated a 300 ton per day mill. The mine is the source for a rare secondary mineral known as “antlerite” that forms in the oxidized zone of copper deposits. Frequently confused with the brochantite it resembles, this Arizona type mineral is sometimes called “green vitriol” and was noted by W. F. Hillebrand in 1889 as a new species appearing as tabular, acicular or fibrous crystals.
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