Tungstona Mine

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum, Vanadium, Bismuth, Lead, Beryllium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026938
MRDS ID M001168
Record type Site
Current site name Tungstona Mine
Alternate or previous names Tungsten
Related records 10161775

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.15521, 34.62976 (WGS84)
Elevation 1143
Relative position 4 1/2 MILES NE OF BAGDAD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bozarth Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bagdad(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Burro(hydrologic unit)

Bill Williams(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 015N 009W 24 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Beryllium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Lead Ore
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore

Analytical data

Result U.S.G.S. SAMPLES 0.16 % AND 0.13 % WO3, 0.05 % AND 0.02 % BEO. 1952 DEVELOPMENT WORK REVEALED ORE OF HIGHER GRADE, 0.3 % WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.15521, 34.62976

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Tungsten-Quartz Veins Parallel Wnw Trending Aplite Dikes

Ore body information

  • Strike N 70 W
    Dip 75 S
    Length 609.6M
    Width 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins In Granite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1932
Discoverer J. Comode

Mining district

District name Tungstona District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Hillside Mining And Milling Co.
    First year 1952
  • Type Owner
    Owner Bagdad Copper Corp.
    First year 1958

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 762M
    Overall depth 152.4M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., 1961 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, MOHAVE COUNTIES, ARIZONA: U.S.B.M. INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8078 , P. 53

  • Deposit

    ANDERSON, C.A., 1955 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BAGDAD AREA, YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER 278 , P. 97 , 79

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, D.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E.D., 1941, ARIZ. UNIV. BULL. VOL. 12, NO. 2

  • Production

    U.S.B.M. I.C. 8078 , P. 53

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CLOSELY SPACED, NEARLY VERTICAL VEINLETS 1 TO 2 INCHES WIDE AT FEW INCHES TO SEVERAL FEET INTERVALS.
Deposit RECORD # D000842 BY JAMES E. ELLIOTT HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THIS RECORD. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1973 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Roth, Frances A. (Dewitt, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.