USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Alaskan Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground 1 mapped shaft 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Mining district
- Harquahala District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Au-Ag-Cu-Pb mine located in sec. 19, T5N, R10W, on the plain South of the Harquahala Mountains, about 13 miles SE of Wenden, on BLM-administered land. Discovered in 1920 by Mr. A. Johnson. Here a gravel-mantled pediment is trenc…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Harquahala Mountain , 1990
- Adit : Harquahala Mountain , 1990
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chrysocolla
- Limonite
- Calcite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
View all 13 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chrysocolla
- Limonite
- Calcite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Fluorite
- Limonite
- Minium
- Native Gold
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (1)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 42935
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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