Black Prince

Past Producer in Cochise county in Arizona, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Zinc
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. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10185988
MRDS ID TC10239
MAS/MILS ID 0040030217
Record type Site
Current site name Black Prince
Alternate or previous names Kreis Mine, Standard Tungsten Mine, Johnnie Boy, Johnnie Boy No. 1 Barite Prospect, Head Center, Coronado Nf Dragoon Unit
Related records 10060250

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -109.95676, 31.86293 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cochise(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Diamond Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chiricahua Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper San Pedro(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Coronado National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Cochise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 018 S 023 E 13 SW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • WORKINGS EXTEND INTO T18S, R23E, NENE SEC. 23 AND NW SEC. 24.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -109.95676, 31.86293

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Year of first production 1932

Mining district

District name Middle Pass District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Standard Tungsten Corp
    Home office New York
    Year 1960
  • Type Owner
    Owner John F. Kreis
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1960

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S. B., 1973, ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 187, P. 69.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, A. L., 1951, ADMMR FIELD ENGINEERS REPORT ON BLACK

  • Deposit

    PRINCE MINE, P. 2.

  • Deposit

    DALE, V. B., ET AL, 1960, USBM RI 5650, P. 57, 59.

  • Deposit

    STEWART, L. A., AND PFISTER, A. J.,USBM RI 5661, P. 10-11.

  • Deposit

    CHATMAN, M. L., 1993, USBM OFR MLA 30-93, P. 36, D107-108.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 20-JAN-1994 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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