USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Greenlee County
Arizona Central Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Greenlee
- Mining district
- Copper Mountain District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Copper Mountain Tunnel, Detroit Copper Co. Group, Williams Vein, Arizona Central Vein
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Cu-Zn mine. Discovered in 1870 by Jim Bllard and John Swisshelm. Produced 1882-1920. Mineralization is an irregular ore body hosted in the Modoc Limestone, Morenci Shale and Longfelow Limestone. Associated rock units…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 8 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Phelps Dodge Corp., Morenci Branch · Historical operator
- Phelps Dodge Corp., Morenci Branch ) · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Limonite
- Pyroxene
- Tremolite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cuprite
View all 29 reported minerals
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Limonite
- Pyroxene
- Tremolite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cuprite
- Goslarite
- Magnetite
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cuprite
- Epidote
- Garnet Group
- Goslarite
- Limonite
- Magnetite
- Malachite
- Muscovite
- Nontronite
- Pyrite
- Pyroxene Group
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
- Tremolite
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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (8)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 43412
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (16)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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