USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
Outpost Mine
Unconfirmed Bismuth Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Mining district
- White Picacho District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Bismuth
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A Bi-feldspar & traces of Nb-Ta-Sn-V-Pb-Cu-Zn-Mica mine located in the NW¼ of the NE¼ sec. 3, T.7N., R.3W. NOTE: Some references in the literature place this mine in Maricopa County; however, Jahns (1952), Plate I (map) clearly places it in Yavapai Co…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 adit symbol
- Adit : Red Picacho , 1964
View individual source records (3)
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.
- 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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Apatite
- Beryl
- Fluorite
- Garnet
- Microlite
- Muscovite
- Pyrochlore
- Quartz
View all 40 reported minerals
- Apatite
- Beryl
- Fluorite
- Garnet
- Microlite
- Muscovite
- Pyrochlore
- Quartz
- Albite
- Anglesite
- Bismuth
- Bismuthinite
- Bismutite
- Cassiterite
- Chrysocolla
- Columbite
- Cuprite
- Molybdenite
- Pyrrhotite
- Silver
- Tantalite
- Vanadinite
- Wulfenite
- Albite
- Anglesite
- Apatite
- Beryl
- Beyerite
- Biotite
- Bismuthinite
- Bismutite
- Cassiterite
- Cerussite
- Chrysocolla
- Cleavelandite
- Columbite-Tantalite
- Cuprite
- Fluorite
- Garnet Group
- K Feldspar
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 adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 3353
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (17)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Documented adit evidence