USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Tungsten Hill Mine
Unconfirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface 3 mapped shafts 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Jackpot and Velmaette Groups, Quartzsite Tungsten
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground W mine located in West-central sec. 27, T8N, R20W, 0.6 miles (ca. 1 km) NE of the Darling Mine. Owned by the Gold Hill Dredging Co. Mineralization is sporadic scheelite in garnet-epidote tactite along Mesozoic quartz…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 4 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 4 adit symbols
- Shaft : Middle Camp Mtn. , 1971
- Adit : Middle Camp Mtn. , 1971
- Shaft : Middle Camp Mtn. , 1971
- Adit : Middle Camp Mtn. , 1971
- Adit : Middle Camp Mtn. , 1971
- Adit : Middle Camp Mtn. , 1971
View individual source records (8)
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. -
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. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). 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
- commodity:Tungsten
- Epidote
- Quartzite
- Scheelite
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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33552
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (4)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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