San Luis Wash Tungsten Placers

The San Luis Wash Tungsten Placers is a tungsten mine located in Pima county, Arizona at an elevation of 4,501 feet.

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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

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Site Name

Primary: San Luis Wash Tungsten Placers

Commodity

Primary: Tungsten
Secondary: Gold

Location

State: Arizona
County: Pima
District: Arivica District

Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Administrative Organization: Coronado National Forest

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1952
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

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

Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: 3 % WO3 , AND CONCENTRATES AS 20 % WO3

Materials

Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Wolframite

Comments

Comment (Location): W CENTRAL SECTION 14.

Comment (Production): (1) "FEW" TENS OF POUNDS OF CONCENTRATES PRODUCED IN MID - 1950'S. IN 1952 UP TO 60 TONS OF GRAVEL PER DAY WERE MINED WHICH CONTAINED UP TO 0.25% TUNGSTEN CONCENTRATES.

Comment (Deposit): THE RICHEST PART OF THE WASH IS 3,500 FT IN LENGTH AND UP TO 22 FT IN WIDTH WITH DEPTH RANGING FROM A FEW INCHES TO THREE FT.

Comment (Workings): DRY WASHER

Comment (Deposit): THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000817 OF JAMES E. ELLIOT WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

References

Reference (Deposit): KEITH, S.B., 1974, INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 189, P. 106.

Reference (Deposit): DALE, V.B., STEWART, L.A., MCKINNEY, W.A., 1960, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF COCHISE, PIMA, AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES, ARIZ.: USBM RI 5650.

Reference (Deposit): HEYLMUN, E.B., 1987, THE SAN LUIS MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA: CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL, V. 56, NO 10, P. 71-75.

Reference (Other Database): CIMRI

Reference (Production): ( 1 ) KEITH, S. B., 1974 , P. 106; HEYLMUN, E.B., 1987, P. 74.

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