USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Three Musketeers Mine
Unconfirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Mining district
- Ellsworth District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former W-Au occurrence/mine located in the SW¼ sec. 24, T6N, R15W, G&SRM, 5.7 km (3.6 miles) W of Salome Peak (coordinates of record), on Bureau of Land Management administered land. Also located in secs. 23, 25 & 26. Discovered and started producing…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 8 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
Operators / organizations
- Wreggit, R.(Transverse Mines Inc.) · Historical operator · 1982
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Biotite
- Bismite
- Bismuthinite
- Bismutite
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Gold
View all 26 reported minerals
- Biotite
- Bismite
- Bismuthinite
- Bismutite
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Tungsten
- Dolomite
- Epidote
- Feldspar
- Feldspar Group
- Gold
- Granite
- Hornblende
- Hornblende Root Name Group
- Kettnerite
- Limestone
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Schist
- Sericite
- 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 (4)
- mapped adit symbols (8)
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: 27594
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (22)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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