USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Tungsten King Mine
Source Corroborated Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Cochise District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Black Rock Group, Tungsten King Group. Tungsten Queen Group
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small surface and underground W-Cu-Pb-Zn-Te-Mo-Bi-Be mine located on 12 unpatented claims in the NW¼ sec. 6, T16S, R22E, about 12 road miles NE of Benson. Discovered in 1913 by J.J. Wien. Started 1916 and closed during WWI. Owned at times, or …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Dragoon , 1958
- Adit : San Pedro Ranch , 1985
View individual source records (4)
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Standard Tungsten Corp. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Beryl
- Biotite
- Calcite
View all 32 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Beryl
- Biotite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chondrodite
- Dolomite
- Feldspar Group
- Galena
- Garnet Group
- Gypsum
- Hematite
- Hübnerite
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
- Limonite
- Magnetite
- Manganese Dendrites
- Manganese Oxides
- Molybdenite
- Muscovite
- Opal
- Opal-AN
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Tetradymite
- 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: 32616
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (27)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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