USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Gila County
Cowboy Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Gila
- Mining district
- Dripping Springs District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Au-Ag-Pb-V-Mo-Cu-Hg-Zn mine located in the E sec. 31, T3S, R15E, about 1¼ miles SE of Dripping Spring, 1½ miles E of Manhattan Mountain, about 8 miles NW of Christmas, on state land. Produced 1895-1925. Owned by the Dripping Spring…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 9 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: Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Ankerite
- Chrysocolla
- Cinnabar
- Hemimorphite
- Jarosite
- Malachite
- Wulfenite
View all 16 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Ankerite
- Chrysocolla
- Cinnabar
- Hemimorphite
- Jarosite
- Malachite
- Wulfenite
- Ankerite
- Chrysocolla
- Cinnabar
- Hemimorphite
- Jarosite
- Malachite
- Native Gold
- Wulfenite
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 (5)
- mapped adit symbols (9)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 40779
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (8)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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