USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Yuma County
Buckeye Vein Group
Unconfirmed Lead Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yuma
- Mining district
- Castle Dome District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Castle Dome, New Dil-New Chance No. 1, Lady Edith, Big Dome -Dusty No. 4, New Chance No. 4, Hopkins, Miller, Norma, Caledona, William Penn
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Pb-Ag-F-Ba-V-Mo-Zn-Au-Cu (As-Se-Be-Sb) mine group located in South-central sec. 25, North-central to South-central sec. 36, T.4S., R.19W. (protracted), on the Kofa Game Range. The property consisted of 1 patented claim and numerous…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 54 shaft 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
Operators / organizations
- Mrs. Eliza De Luce · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Barite
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Hydrozincite
- Mimetite
- Smithsonite
- Vanadinite
View all 14 reported minerals
- Barite
- Calcite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Hydrozincite
- Mimetite
- Smithsonite
- Vanadinite
- Wulfenite
- Anglesite
- Fluorite
- Hydrozincite
- Limonite
- Smithsonite
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 (54)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33337
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (4)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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