USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Princess Mines
Source Corroborated Barium-Barite Underground 1 mapped shaft 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Barium-Barite
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Princess and Hamburg Mines
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Pb-Zn-Ag-Baryte-Fluorspar-Sr-Fe-Mo-V mine located in the center of sec. 1, T.4S., R.23W. (protracted), 1 mile NE of the Red Cloud Mine, on BLM-administered land. Started in the 1880's. Owned/operated at times, or in part, by Blake;…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Shaft
— 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
- 2 adit symbols
- Shaft : Picacho , 1954
- Adit : Picacho , 1954
- Adit : Picacho , 1954
View individual source records (5)
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. -
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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Neal Mining Co · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Anglesite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Celestine
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Lead
View all 19 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Anglesite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Celestine
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Manganese Oxides
- Massicot
- Quartz
- Smithsonite
- Vanadinite
- Wulfenite
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 (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 7708
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (19)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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