USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Copper Queen Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Warren District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Halero, Bisbee
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A Cu-Zn-Ag (Be) mine located in the center of sec. 23, T.15S., R.22E. Owned in part or at times by the Black Prince Copper Co. and the Coronado Copper & Zinc Co. Mineralization is copper and zinc carbonates and sulfides with pyrite in mantos and poc…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 18 shaft symbols
- 12 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: mine located in the SW¼ sec. 9, T23S, R24E, G&SRM, approximately 1½ miles NW of Lowell. All major shafts are found in the SW¼SW¼ sec…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Phelps Dodge Corp. · Historical operator / Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Copper
- Cuprite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Copper
- Cuprite
- Delafossite
- Gold
- Malachite
- Selenite
- Alabandite
- Allophane
- Aragonite
- Aurichalcite
- Azurite
- Brochantite
- Calcite
- Chalcanthite
- Chalcoalumite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chalcotrichite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Mineral specimens
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Connellite
- Copiapite
- Coquimbite
- Cuprite
- Delafossite
- Goethite
- Gypsum
- Kaolinite
- Kornelite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- private property
- Source
- Queen Mine Tour official site
- Access information last checked
- August 9, 2026
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 (18)
- mapped adit symbols (12)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 1 historical document
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
Copper Queen Mine (2003)
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 32672
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (28)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
Queen Mine Tour official site
Type: Access / land-management source
Supports:
- access / lawful visit information
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