USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Amelia Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground 5 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Mining district
- Silver District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Gallo, Revelation
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Ag-Pb-Zn-Fe-Baryte-Sr-Fluorspar mine located in South-central sec. 25 and sec. 36, T3S, R23W, some 1,500 feet SW of the Blaine Mine, on state land. Owned at times, or in part, by Sterling Silver Mines Consolidated; and the United S…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Hidden Valley , 1965
- Shaft : Hidden Valley , 1965
- Shaft : Hidden Valley , 1965
View individual source records (5)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). 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
- Celestite
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Barite
- Cerussite
- Hematite
- Baryte
View all 25 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Celestite
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Barite
- Cerussite
- Hematite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Celestine
- Cerussite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Barite (Barytes)
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Strontium
- commodity:Zinc
- Fluorite
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Iron-bearing Calcite
- Manganese-bearing Calcite
- Quartz
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 (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 7716
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (18)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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