USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
Big Lead Mine
Source Corroborated Copper Underground 1 mapped shaft 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Santa Cruz
- Mining district
- Patagonia District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- M, M. Mine, W.
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 2 adit symbols
- Shaft : Cumero Canyon , 1981
View individual source records (3)
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Silver
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.
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