USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Van Horn Mine
Unconfirmed Tungsten Underground 1 mapped shaft 6 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- New Reef
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Coronado N.F. Part 8.
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A W-Au-Ag mine located on 12 unpatented claims in South-central sec. 30 & North-central sec. 31, T.23S., R.20E., in Bear Canyon on the SW side of the Huachuca Mountains; about 40 miles by road SW from Tombstone, and a short distance SW of the Harper pr…
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 shaft symbol
- 6 adit symbols
- Adit : Miller Peak , 1958
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.
- 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
- Bornite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- 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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 32765
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (4)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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