USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
Flux Mine
Unconfirmed Lead Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Santa Cruz
- Mining district
- Harshaw District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Goshen
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former medium-sized surface and underground Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au-Mn mine located on 11 claims in the SE¼SW¼ sec. 30, T.22S., R.16E., 4 miles south of Patagonia, about 1 mile within the mountains from their north edge, in the head of Flux Gulch, a parallel …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 9 shaft symbols
- 23 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
- Richardson; Ar Gold And Copper Co; Patagonia Mining Co · Historical operator · 1975
- Sterling Dev Co; Flux Mg Co; Allen And Kolberg; Alverez · Historical operator · 1975
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Alum Group
- Alum-(Na)
- Anglesite
- Aurichalcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
View all 39 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Alum Group
- Alum-(Na)
- Anglesite
- Aurichalcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Epidote
- Galena
- Goethite
- Halotrichite
- Hematite
- Hemimorphite
- Hornblende Root Name Group
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
- Limonite
- Linarite
- Massicot
- Minium
- Muscovite
- Psilomelane
- Pyrite
- Pyrolusite
- Pyromorphite
- Quartz
- Saponite
- Sericite
- Serpierite
- Siderite
- Sphalerite
- Vanadinite
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 (9)
- mapped adit symbols (23)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 5529
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (39)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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