Artillery Mountains | |
Photo Size: | 350px |
Country: | United States |
State: | Arizona |
Border: | Big Sandy River–Arrastra Mountain Wilderness-N & E Alamo Lake State Park-S Rawhide Mountains & Wilderness-SW |
Length Mi: | 12 |
Length Orientation: | NW x E |
Width Mi: | 5 |
Highest: | Artillery Peak-(volcanic plug) |
Elevation Ft: | 1200 |
The Artillery Mountains are a mountain range in Mohave County in western Arizona. High point of the range is Artillery Peak, 2917abbr=offNaNabbr=off above sea level. Artillery Peak is at coordinates N 34.36946 W 113.58160 .
Mineral resources of the Artillery Mountains include manganese, uranium and gold. Rocher Deboule Minerals drilled their Artillery Mountains Manganese property in 2008, and discovered a resource of 2,553,000 tonnes of 3.82% Mn.[1]
High Desert Gold acquired the Artillery Peak gold project in western Arizona in 2008.[2]
At Uranium Energy's Artillery Peak uranium project, the firm hopes to discover a uranium deposit similar to the nearby Anderson Mine, which has a published reserve of 27 million pounds of uranium, in addition to a uranium resource of 70 million pounds, and another 80 million pounds of vanadium.[3]