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Arizona · Mohave County

Black Jack Mine

Unconfirmed Manganese Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 2 mapped adits

Key facts

State
Arizona
County
Mohave
Mining district
Artillery Peak District
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Manganese
Verification
Unconfirmed

Also known as

  • Black Jack Group, Love

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

A W occurrence/claim located E of the Bull Canyon Mine and ENE of the Boriana Mine. This locality is not listed in the USGS MRDS database.

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Additional documented workings

  • Shaft — documented in 2 source records.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
  • Adit — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 2 shaft symbols
  • 2 adit symbols
  • Shaft : Artillery Peak , 1990
  • Shaft : Artillery Peak , 1966
  • Adit : Artillery Peak , 1966
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • 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.
  • 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.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Barite
  • Baryte
  • commodity:Barite (Barytes)
  • commodity:Manganese
  • commodity:Tungsten
  • Coronadite
  • Cryptomelane
  • Hollandite
View all 14 reported minerals
  • Barite
  • Baryte
  • commodity:Barite (Barytes)
  • commodity:Manganese
  • commodity:Tungsten
  • Coronadite
  • Cryptomelane
  • Hollandite
  • Jasper
  • Lithiophorite
  • Psilomelane
  • Pyrolusite
  • Quartz
  • Ramsdellite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped shaft symbols (2)
  • mapped adit symbols (2)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 36387

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (13)

A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.

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