USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
Big Steve
Unconfirmed Lead Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Santa Cruz
- Mining district
- Pajarito
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Big Steve Mine, Coronado Nf Mla
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small surface and underground Ag-Pb-Au-Cu-Zn-U mine located in North-central sec. 2, T.24S., R.12E, 1 mile N of Pajarito Peak (elevation 5236), on National Forest land. The White Oak and Big Steve Mines are part of a group of 4 claims in the …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 8 shaft symbols
- 16 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Clarke · Historical operator · 1975
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Amethyst
- Anglesite
- Autunite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Fluorite
View all 16 reported minerals
- Amethyst
- Anglesite
- Autunite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Kasolite
- Malachite
- Marcasite
- Pyrite
- Pyromorphite
- Quartz
- Uranophane
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 (8)
- mapped adit symbols (16)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 1 historical document
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 34115
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (16)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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