Facts
- MSHA status
- Intermittent since Jul 23, 2025
- Type
- Surface
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
- Land status (BLM data)
- Private land or land not mapped as public
- Nearest town
- Wickenburg
- Employees reported
- 10
- Operator
- Vulture Peak Holding LLC
- Website
- vulturecityghosttown.com
- Coordinates
- 33.8200, -112.8331
- MSHA mine ID
- 0203344
Source: MSHA Mines data set, retrieved 2026-10-13. Status and counts can lag real operations.
Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date. Check ownership before you go near any mine site.
History and geology (USGS)
- USGS site name
- Vulture Mine
- USGS status
- Past producer
- Commodities
- Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Lithium, Vanadium, Zinc
- Workings
- Surface/Underground
- Output size
- small (USGS class)
- Production years
- 1863 to 1966
- Discovered
- 1863
Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10027543 (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.
Gold mines nearby
- Gladiator Mine 40 mi · temporarily idled
- Henrietta Mine 56 mi · intermittent
- Copperstone Mine 83 mi · non-producing