USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Mohave County
Murphy Tungsten Prospect
Unconfirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Mohave
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Wheeler
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former W-Cu-Mo-pyrite occurrence/mine located in the NE¼SW¼NW¼ sec. 25, T20N, R15W, G&SRM, E of Pine LAke (village), just N of Wheeler Wash, 3 miles SE of Dean Peak, on Bureau of Land Management administered land. Additional workings are located in s…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- Pyrite
- Scheelite
- Wolframite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Iron pyrite
- commodity:Molybdenum
View all 13 reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- Pyrite
- Scheelite
- Wolframite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Iron pyrite
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Tungsten
- Gneiss
- Pyrite
- Scheelite
- Wolframite Group
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 105993
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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