USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Banks Mine
Unconfirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Cochise 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 small surface and underground W-Fluorspar-Cu-Pb-Zn mine located in the southern central portion of sec. 1, T.16S., R.22E, 2¼ miles SSE of the town of Johnson, on private land. Mineralization is a vein deposit with hübnerite, scheelite, fluo…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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
- Huebnerite
- Scheelite
- Fluorite
- Hübnerite
- Scheelite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 32277
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (3)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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