The Buena Vista is a niobium (columbium) and tantalum mine located in Yavapai county, Arizona at an elevation of 3,599 feet.
About the MRDS Data:
All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 3,599 Feet (1,097 Meters)
Commodity: Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum
Lat, Long: 33.9619, -112.55750
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Buena Vista MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Buena Vista
Secondary: Picacho View
Secondary: Homestead
Secondary: Monster
Secondary: Starlight
Secondary: Anderson Pegmatites
Commodity
Primary: Niobium (Columbium)
Primary: Tantalum
Tertiary: Beryllium
Tertiary: Feldspar
Tertiary: Lithium
Tertiary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Mica
Location
State: Arizona
County: Yavapai
District: White Picacho
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Rupert Spivey
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1942
Discovery Year: 1939
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Tourmaline
Unknown: Fluorite
Unknown: Allanite
Unknown: Albite
Unknown: Tantalite
Unknown: Sphalerite
Unknown: Pyrite
Unknown: Muscovite
Unknown: Microcline
Unknown: Lepidolite
Unknown: Hemimorphite
Unknown: Garnet
Unknown: Galena
Unknown: Columbite
Unknown: Biotite
Unknown: Beryl
Unknown: Arsenopyrite
Unknown: Wulfenite
Unknown: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Geology): OTHER MINERALS PRESENT INCLUDE CERUSSITE, MOLYBDITE, AND PERTHITE.
Comment (Deposit): THE STRIKE OF THE MINERALIZATION IS N55E; DIP IS 35 TO 55 S.
References
Reference (Deposit): ARIZONA; AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST FROM U.S. GEOLOGICAL
Reference (Deposit): SURVEY, RESTON, VA.
Reference (Deposit): BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 162, 1952, 105 PP.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. MINERAL RESOURCES DATA SYSTEM
Reference (Deposit): (MRDS, COMPUTER DATA BASE). ALL RECORDS PERTAINING TO
Reference (Deposit): DALE, V.B. TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, AND MOHAVE
Reference (Deposit): COUNTIES, ARIZONA. BUMINES IC 8078, 1961, 104 PP.
Reference (Deposit): JAHNS, R.H. PEGMATITE DEPOSITS OF THE WHITE PICACHO
Reference (Deposit): DISTRICT, MARICOPA AND YAVAPAI COUNTIES, ARIZONA. AZ
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