Tungsten Hill Mine (Quartzite Tungsten Mine; Jackpot and Velmaette groups; Jackpot claims; Jackpot and Velma Quartzite claims), La Paz District (Weaver District), Dome Rock Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 33°44'42"N
Longitude: 114°19'15"W
Ref.: Dale, V.B. (1959) Tungsten Deposits of Yuma, Maricopa, Pinal, and Graham Counties, Arizona. U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5516: 20-21.
Lemmon, D.M., and Tweto, O.L. (1962) Tungsten in the U.S., USGS map, MR-25.
Keith, Stanton B. (1978) State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 192, Index of Mining Properties in Yuma County, Arizona: 160 (Table 4).
Lemmon, D.M., unpublished data.
U.S. Bureau of Mines card file.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10008544, MRDS ID #D000835; and Dep. ID #10098212, MRDS ID #M004391; and, Dep. ID #10161692, MAS ID #0040120482.
A former surface and underground W mine located in West-central sec. 27, T8N, R20W, 0.6 miles NE of the Darling Mine. Owned by the Gold Hill Dredging Co.
Mineralization is sporadic scheelite in garnet-epidote tactite along Mesozoic quartz-biotite schist and limestone contact, and in related fractures where cut by quartz veins. Idocrase (vesuvianite) rock in schist.
Workings include a shaft(s) and open cut operations worked in 1943-1944, and in the 1950's. It produced some 4,000 or more tons of about 0.4% WO3 ore. In 1943-1944, 368 tons of sorted ore containing 433 units of WO3 were shipped to the Metals Reserve Co.
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