USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
Brick Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Santa Cruz
- Mining district
- Oro Blanco District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
‡Ref.: Knight, L.H., Jr. (1970) Structure and mineralization of the Oro Blanco mining district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, Ph.D. dissertation, 172 p., 7 sheets, scales 1:1,200, 1:6,000, 1:16,000, 1:24,000, 1:60,000, 1:62…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 7 shaft symbols
- 9 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
- Pyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
View all 14 reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Muscovite
- Native Silver
- Pyrite
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
- 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 (7)
- mapped adit symbols (9)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 34022
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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