Mine detail: Picacho View

Previously called 'Buena VistaHomesteadMonsterStarlightAnderson Pegmatites'

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Location

Lat / long: 33.96196, -112.55824

Resource(B)

Primary: Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum
Tertiary: Mica, Beryllium, Feldspar, Lithium, Tungsten
Other material: Albite, Allanite, Arsenopyrite, Beryl, Biotite, Columbite, Fluorite, Galena, Garnet, Hemimorphite, Lepidolite, Microcline, Muscovite, Pyrite, Quartz, Sphalerite, Tantalite, Tourmaline, Wulfenite
Discovery year: 1939

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1942

Geology

References

MAS40251836
DEP10162111
Reference{Deposit:: DALE, V.B. TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, AND MOHAVE}{Deposit:: COUNTIES, ARIZONA. BUMINES IC 8078, 1961, 104 PP.}{Deposit:: JAHNS, R.H. PEGMATITE DEPOSITS OF THE WHITE PICACHO}{Deposit:: DISTRICT, MARICOPA AND YAVAPAI COUNTIES, ARIZONA. AZ}{Deposit:: BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 162, 1952, 105 PP.}{Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. MINERAL RESOURCES DATA SYSTEM}{Deposit:: (MRDS, COMPUTER DATA BASE). ALL RECORDS PERTAINING TO}{Deposit:: ARIZONA; AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST FROM U.S. GEOLOGICAL}{Deposit:: SURVEY, RESTON, VA.}
ReporterIntermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC)