USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Silver King
Unconfirmed Lead Underground 2 mapped shafts 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A small former underground Pb-Ag-Zn-Mo-Fe-V-Fluorspar-Baryte-Sr-Cu mine located in the center of sec. 1, T4S, R23W, just E of the Princess Mine, on BLM-administered land. Owned at time, or in part, by Jones; and the Geronimo Mining Co. Owned by Mr. S.P…
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.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Picacho , 1954
- Adit : Picacho , 1954
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): 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
- Anglesite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Barite (Barytes)
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Iron
View all 27 reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Barite (Barytes)
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Vanadium
- commodity:Zinc
- Diaboleite
- Fluorite
- Fornacite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Mammothite
- Massicot
- Mimetite
- Minium
- Quartz
- Vanadinite
- Wickenburgite
- Willemite
- 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 shaft symbols (2)
- mapped adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33820
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (27)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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