USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
Picacho View
Unconfirmed Niobium (Columbium) Mixed Underground / Surface 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Niobium (Columbium)
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Monster, Starlight, Anderson Pegmatites, Buena Vista, Homestead
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Be-Nb-Ta-REE-Li-W-Feldspar-Mica mine with traces of Pb-Zn-Mo-Au, located in the E½ of the NW¼ sec. 10, T.7N., R.3W., about ¼ mile NE of Mitchell Wash. Discovered 1939. First produced 1942. The main pegmatite body is …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Red Picacho , 1964
- Adit : Red Picacho , 1964
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. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_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
- Albite
- Allanite
- Allanite Group
- Arsenopyrite
- Beryl
- Biotite
- Cerussite
- Columbite
View all 33 reported minerals
- Albite
- Allanite
- Allanite Group
- Arsenopyrite
- Beryl
- Biotite
- Cerussite
- Columbite
- Columbite-(Fe)-Columbite-(Mn) Series
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Garnet
- Garnet Group
- Hemimorphite
- K Feldspar
- Lepidolite
- Limonite
- Microcline
- Microlite Group
- Molybdenite
- Molybdite
- Montebrasite
- Muscovite
- Pyrite
- Pyrochlore Group
- Quartz
- Schorl
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
- Spodumene
- Tantalite
- Tourmaline
- Wulfenite
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 (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 52657
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (30)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Historical mapped workings available