USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Pima County
Blue Jay Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Pima
- Mining district
- Helvetia-Rosemont District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Good Friday
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Ref.: Schrader, F.C. (1915) Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, with contributions by J.M. Hill: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 582, 373 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:125,000: 132-134. Keith, Stanton B. (1974), Arizona Bure…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 7 shaft symbols
- 7 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Galena
- Gold
- Pyrite
- Scheelite
- Acanthite
- Anthophyllite
View all 17 reported minerals
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Galena
- Gold
- Pyrite
- Scheelite
- Acanthite
- Anthophyllite
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
- Copper Stain
- Galena
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Silver-bearing Galena
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 (7)
- mapped adit symbols (7)
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Record: 1 historical document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
Blue Jay Mine (1919)
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 36051
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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