USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yavapai County
Bruce Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai
- Mining district
- Eureka District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Old Dick
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Zn-Cu-Ag-Au-Pb-As-Co-Cd mine located 2¾ miles SSW of Bagdad and 1½ miles south of the Copper King Mine. The Old Dick patented claim was located in 1882 by William Waters, who sold it to John Lawler 9 years later. Lawler obtained a …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 7 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
View individual source records (3)
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
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
Operators / organizations
- Cyprus Minerals Co, 7200 S Alton Wy, Englewood, Co 80155 · Historical operator · 1993
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Azurite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chamosite
- Chlorite Group
- Covellite
View all 26 reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Azurite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chamosite
- Chlorite Group
- Covellite
- Cubanite
- Cuprite
- Danaite
- Epidote
- Gahnite
- Galena
- Mackinawite
- Magnetite
- Malachite
- Muscovite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Rutile
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
- Tennantite
- Tennantite 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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 44769
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (25)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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