USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Pinal County
Copper Prince Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Pinal
- Mining district
- Bunker Hill District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Cu-W-Mo mine located in the NE¼ sec. 10, T8S, R18E (Oak Grove Canyon 7.5 minute topo map), about 1½ miles NW of Copper Creek ghost town and about ¾ mile N of Copper Creek (stream), on private property. Discovered in 1907 and prospe…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 6 shaft symbols
- 10 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
Operators / organizations
- Arizona Molybdenum Corp. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Copper
- Molybdenite
- Wolframite
- Chalcanthite
View all 16 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Copper
- Molybdenite
- Wolframite
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Molybdenite
- Muscovite
- Native Copper
- Pyrite
- Sericite
- Wolframite Group
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 (6)
- mapped adit symbols (10)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 46963
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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