Q Mountain Abandoned Stetler Mill and Scheelite Mine
Channel: Ramblin Pam
Date: 2021-02-26

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Stetler Mill and Scheelite Mine.
Today we went out exploring and found this abandoned mine works operation and stamp mill. There is very little about this mine tha could find. Leave me a comment if you have additional info on it. Thank you!
Update: Originally I thought this was the Chocolate Mountain Gold Mine. After more research, I am pretty sure it is the Stetler Mill Site and Scheelite Mine.
Reference: http://lapazcountypassport.com/POI_minesGhost.html

In 1951, the government agreed to buy concentrates of standard grade tungsten ore @ $63 per short-term unit. One of the minerals in Tungsten is Scheelite Ore. At the time, there was only one mine in the area known to have tungsten - the Tungsten Mine in Quartzsite, located by Len Hogue. In 1942 Hogue was killed when his truck overturned. Hogue’s estate sold the mine claim to the Gold Hill Dredging Co. Which by 1944 had produced 53 tons of scheelite ore. In May 1951, the government announced they had located 26 additional tungsten mines in the state of Arizona. Shortly after, Gold Hill Dredging agreed to lease the former Tungsten mine to John J. Stetler known as Jack. From sun up to sun down Jack worked his mill on Mill Hill. I believe now it’s known as Q Mtn or Q Hill.
From 1951 to 1956 4,000 tons of tungsten was mined from the mines in this area. In1956, the program was suddenly canceled. Jack and his family moved on to work at Kaiser Steel’s Eagle Mtn. Mine.
http://www.epageflip.net/i/382072-september-17-2014/11?

Another website called this site, The Halsey-Williams Mine. But I believe that mine is over by the Gold Eye Mine site down the road from here.

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