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Arizona · Maricopa County

Copper Kid Nos. 1, 2, and 3 and Copper Kid Amended Claims

Unconfirmed Lead Underground 2 mapped shafts 2 mapped adits

Key facts

State
Arizona
County
Maricopa
Mining district
Cave Creek District
Development status
Occurrence
Mine type
Underground
Primary commodity
Lead
Verification
Unconfirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

  • Adit — documented in 2 source records.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
  • Shaft — documented in 2 source records.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 2 shaft symbols
  • 2 adit symbols
  • Shaft : New River Mesa , 1964
  • Shaft : New River Mesa , 1964
  • Adit : New River Mesa , 1964
  • Adit : New River Mesa , 1964
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Shaft
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • 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.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Occurrence

Operators / organizations

  • Mr And Mrs W. C. Kinnon · Source-reported owner

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Barite
  • Calcite
  • Galena
  • Malachite
  • Uraninite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped shaft symbols (2)
  • mapped adit symbols (2)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

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