USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Bluebird 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
Also known as
- Primos Group, Bluebird Hill, Dividend Tunnel
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small underground W-Cu-Bi-Be mine located in the SW ¼ sec. 3, and sec. 9, T.16S., R.22E, 2¾ miles SW of the town of Johnson on the north slope of Bluebird Hill, 4 miles NE of Dragoon, on private land. Discovered 1898. First produced 1900. Owne…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Beryl
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorophane
- Feldspar Group
- Fluorite
- Garnet Group
- Hematite
- Hübnerite
View all 15 reported minerals
- Beryl
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorophane
- Feldspar Group
- Fluorite
- Garnet Group
- Hematite
- Hübnerite
- Huebnerite
- Ingodite
- Jarosite
- Muscovite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- 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 (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 8751
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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