1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

King of Lead Mine

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10161194
MRDS ID M800319
MAS/MILS ID 0040030166
Record type Site
Current site name King of Lead Mine
Alternate or previous names Mineral Investigation of the North, End Roadless Area.
Related records 10048226

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -109.30924, 32.04153 (WGS84)
Elevation 2097
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cochise Head(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Willcox(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Simon(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 016 S 030 E 18 NE Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -109.30924, 32.04153
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name California District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Morrow, Taylor, Pursley

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH S B 1973 ARIZ BUR MINESBULL 187 P 53

  • Deposit

    BROWN S D 1991 USBM OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 12-93 P 75

  • Deposit

    BIGSBY P R 1983 USBM OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 1-83, 10 P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FIVE PATENTED CLAIMS, PATENTED IN 1905 AND 1914. DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF A 300-FT-LONG ADIT, A CAVED ADIT, A 35-FT-LONG ADIT, AND 2 SHORT SHAFTS. LEAD-ZINC MINERALIZED FAULTS AND DISSEMINATED MINERALS IN PERMIAN LIMESTONE, INTRUDED BY TERTIARY DIKES; IN THE APACHE PASS FAULT ZONE. ORE MINERALS CONSIST OF GALENA AND SPHALERITE, WITH SOME SECONDARY COPPER AND LEAD MINERALS. ABOUT 360 SHORT TONS OF ORE WAS PRODUCED 1927 AND 1970; GENERALLY HIGH LEAD AND SILVER CONTENT WITH VARYING AMOUNTS OF ZINC; LOW VALUES FOR COPPER AND GOLD. (MINE IS ENCLOSED IN THE CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 13-JUL-93 ADMR/Brown U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Arizona resources

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