USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Pima County
Atlas Mine
Unconfirmed Zinc Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Pima
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Bs and K Mines
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former medium-output Zn-Cu-Ag-Au-Pb-wollastonite occurrence/mine located in East-central sec. 32, T11S, R8E, G&SRM, 4 miles NW of Silver Bell. 110 total claims of which 11 are patented. First produced 1915. Closed 1964. Owned at times, or in part, by…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 12 shaft symbols
- 13 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Andradite
- Baryte
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
View all 26 reported minerals
- Andradite
- Baryte
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Wollastonite
- commodity:Zinc
- Dacite
- Epidote
- Galena
- Grossular
- Hedenbergite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Magnetite
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz-monzonite
- Quartzite
- Sphalerite
- Wollastonite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (12)
- mapped adit symbols (13)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 36337
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (26)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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