USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Copper Glance Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground 2 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Corona Copper Co., Mammoth Group
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Cu-Au-Ag-Baryte-Fe-Fluorspar mine located in the NE¼ sec. 12, T8N, R15W, about 20 air miles NW of Wenden, on BLM-administered land. Mineralization is a vein deposit in a shear zone with spotty, oxidized copper minerals with stro…
Additional documented workings
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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
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Butler Pass , 1990
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- 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
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Barite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Hematite
- Magnetite
- Silver
View all 22 reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Barite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Hematite
- Magnetite
- Silver
- Baryte
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Barite (Barytes)
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Silver
- Epidote
- Fluorite
- Hematite
- Magnetite
- Native Gold
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33578
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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