USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Gold Nugget Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground 7 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Guadalupe
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A small former surface and underground Au-Ag-Pb-Cu-Fe mine located in East-central sec. 25 and sec. 19, T4N, R18W, 11 miles E of Quartzsite, on BLM-administered land. Owned at times, or in part, by Smith; and, Simpson. Mineralization is free, coarse…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 6 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 7 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Plomosa Pass , 1990
- Shaft : Quartzsite , 1962
- Shaft : Plomosa Pass , 1990
- Shaft : Plomosa Pass , 1990
- Shaft : Plomosa Pass , 1990
- Shaft : Plomosa Pass , 1990
View individual source records (8)
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. -
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. -
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.
- 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
- Simpson · Historical operator · 1951
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
View all 14 reported minerals
- Anglesite
- Cerussite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Native Gold
- Pyrargyrite
- Siderite
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 (7)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 2 historical documents
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
View 2 citations
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33734
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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