USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
Binghampton Mine
Source Corroborated Copper Underground 5 mapped shafts 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Mining district
- Agua Fria District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Cu-Au-Ag mine located n the NW¼ sec. 6, T.12N., R.2E. (Mayer 7.5 minute topo map), on 10 claims north of the Agua Fria River, about 1 mile above the Stoddard Ranch, near Mayer. Discovered by I.T. Stoddard. Started Aug 1916 and clos…
Additional documented 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.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 2 adit symbols
- Shaft : Mayer , 1974
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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Binghampton Mining Co. · Historical operator
- J. N. Steverson · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Actinolite
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Pyrite
View all 34 reported minerals
- Actinolite
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Pyrite
- Silver
- Actinolite
- Arsenical Tetrahedrite
- Arsenopyrite
- Azurite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- Conichalcite
- Cornwallite
- Dolomite
- Galena
- Libethenite
- Malachite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Olivenite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Reichenbachite
- Sericite
- Serpentine Subgroup
- Siderite
- Sphalerite
- Stilbite Subgroup
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 44061
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (25)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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