USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yuma County
King of Arizona Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yuma
- Mining district
- Kofa District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Gleason
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Au-Ag(58:1)-Mn mine located on 4 full claims (Homestake; King of Arizona; Last Hope; Mucho Bueno) in the center of sec. 12, T2S, R17W, south end of the Kofa Mountains, on federal land. This mine is partially on the Homestake claim,…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 24 shaft symbols
- 11 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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
Operators / organizations
- Barons Gold, Inc. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Plagioclase
- Quartz
- Gold
- Silver
- Aurorite
- Calcite
- Chalcophanite
- Fluorite
View all 18 reported minerals
- Plagioclase
- Quartz
- Gold
- Silver
- Aurorite
- Calcite
- Chalcophanite
- Fluorite
- Manganese-bearing Calcite
- Native Gold
- Opal
- Opal-AN
- Plagioclase
- Polybasite
- Pyrolusite
- Quartz
- Todorokite
- Willemite
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 (24)
- mapped adit symbols (11)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 13854
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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