USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Pima County
Korn Kob Mine
Unconfirmed Tungsten Underground 1 mapped shaft 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Pima
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
An underground Mo-W-Cu-Zn-Ag-Fe-Au mine/prospect/occurrence located in South-central sec. 14, North-central sec. 15 and North-central sec. 23, T.12S., R.17E. (Bellota Ranch 15 minute topo map), 18 miles ENE of Tucson in Buchman Canyon, and 5 miles nort…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 4 adit symbols
- Shaft : Buehman Canyon , 1981
- Adit : Bellota Ranch , 1957
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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
Operators / organizations
- Corner Bay Silver Inc · Historical operator · 1996
- Gold Giants Ventures Inc. · Historical operator · 1996
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Malachite
- Molybdenite
- Powellite
- Scheelite
- Tenorite
- Chalcopyrite
View all 18 reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Malachite
- Molybdenite
- Powellite
- Scheelite
- Tenorite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Epidote
- Garnet Group
- Malachite
- Molybdenite
- Muscovite
- Powellite
- Scheelite
- Sericite
- Tenorite
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 1 historical document
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 36325
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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