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Arizona · Mohave County

Black Burro Mine

Unconfirmed Manganese Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 5 mapped adits

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Key facts

State
Arizona
County
Mohave
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Manganese
Verification
Unconfirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

  • Shaft — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 2 shaft symbols
  • 5 adit symbols
  • Shaft : Rawhide Wash , 1990
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Shaft
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • 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.

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Why it's listed

Source records document both underground and surface mining.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Operators / organizations

  • Goyn, William D. · Historical operator

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Psilomelane
  • Pyrolusite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped shaft symbols (2)
  • mapped adit symbols (5)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

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