USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Greenlee County
Fourth of July Claims
Unconfirmed Fluorine-Fluorite Mixed Underground / Surface 3 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Greenlee
- Mining district
- Twin Peaks District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Fluorine-Fluorite
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Ellis Shaft, Sydney Mine, Billingsley Fluorspar Mines
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Fluorspar-Mn-W-Cu-Au-Ag-Be mine located on 7 unpatented claims, in the NW¼NE¼NW¼ sec. 4, T8S, R32E, and the SW¼ sec. 33, T7S, R32E, 7.5 miles ESE of York between Willow Creek and Daniels Camp Canyon, adjacent to the Luc…
Additional documented workings
-
Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Goat Camp Spring , 1986
- Shaft : Goat Camp Spring , 1986
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Billingsley, Ben · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Olivine
- Quartz
- Bertrandite
- Fluorite
- Psilomelane
- Bertrandite
- Calcite
- commodity:Beryllium
View all 17 reported minerals
- Olivine
- Quartz
- Bertrandite
- Fluorite
- Psilomelane
- Bertrandite
- Calcite
- commodity:Beryllium
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- Fayalite-Forsterite Series
- Fluorite
- Psilomelane
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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 47989
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (12)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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