USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Mohave County
Elkhart Group
Unconfirmed Lead Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Mohave
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Pb-Ag-Au-Cu-As-Zn-Mo occurrence/mine located in the NE¼SE¼SE¼ sec. 34, T24N, R18W, G&SRM, 1 mile NE of Chloride and about 3.2 miles NW of Cherum Peak, on Bureau of land Management administered land. Discovered 1885. Claims in 1909 included the…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 14 shaft symbols
- 3 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
- Cerbat Silver Mining And Milling · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
View all 14 reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Granite
- Molybdenite
- Porphyry
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
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 (14)
- mapped adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 36804
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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