USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Greenlee County
Cuprite Group
Unconfirmed Copper Underground 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Greenlee
- Mining district
- Copper Mountain District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Cu-Ag-Au mine located in the NW¼NW¼ sec. 32, T3S, R29E, 2.0 miles NW of Metcalf at the head of Santa Rosa Gulch, on private land. The property is comprised of 16 patented and 10 unpatented claims totalling 490 acres. Discovered in …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Coronado Mountain , 1989
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). 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: Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Hematite
- Chalcocite
- Dioptase
- Malachite
- Chalcocite
- Dioptase
- Hematite
- Malachite
View all 10 reported minerals
- Hematite
- Chalcocite
- Dioptase
- Malachite
- Chalcocite
- Dioptase
- Hematite
- Malachite
- Muscovite
- Sericite
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 adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 131450
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (6)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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