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Black Bess

Prospect in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc
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  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. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10258844
MAS/MILS ID 0040210166
Record type Site
Current site name Black Bess

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -111.0018, 33.36818 (WGS84)
Elevation 1213
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Superior(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Salt(hydrologic unit)

Salt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tonto 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 Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 001 S 013 E 01 N2 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -111.0018, 33.36818
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1981

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS HAUNTED CANYON AND INSPIRATION QUAD

  • Deposit

    ADOT HIWAY MAP PINAL CO 1962 P 7

  • Deposit

    BLM UNPAT MINING CLAIMS LEAD FILE 45684

  • Deposit

    PETERSON,N P GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE GLOBE MIAMI

  • Deposit

    DIST USGS PP 342 1962 P 123

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-NOV-83 ADMR U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.) — acquired by Asarco LLC, subsidiary of Grupo México (2009)
    American Smelting and Refining Co. Filed Chapter 11 in 2005; acquired out of bankruptcy by Grupo México in 2009.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

External references

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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