USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Empire Mine
Unconfirmed Lead Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Tombstone District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Empire Shaft
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small Ag-Pb-Cu-Zn-Mo-Fluorspar occurrence/mine located in the East-center sec. 11, T20S, R22E, ¼ mile S of Tombstone, on private land. One of Tombstone's first producers, from both the Empire and Toughnut shafts. Owned at times, or in part, by…
Additional documented workings
-
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 13 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
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: Tombstone, on private land. One of Tombstone's first producers, from both the Empire and Toughnut shafts. Owned at times, or in part,…
- 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
- Tombstone Mill And Mining Co., Tombstone Consolidated Mines Co., Bunker Hill Mines Co., Tombstone De · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Copper
- Fluorspar
- Jarosite
- Lead
- Pyrite
- Silver
- Stromeyerite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Copper
- Fluorspar
- Jarosite
- Lead
- Pyrite
- Silver
- Stromeyerite
- Wulfenite
- Andychristyite
- Anglesite
- Azurite
- Baryte
- Beaverite-(Cu)
- Bournonite
- Brochantite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Cervelleite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcocite
- Chlorargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Conichalcite
- Dugganite
- Emmonsite
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Hemimorphite
- Housleyite
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
- Khinite
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 (13)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 5805
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (31)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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