USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Grand Central Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Tombstone District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Contention-Grand Central, Little Joe Shaft
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former large output underground Ag-Au-Pb-Cu-Zn occurrence/mine located in T20S, R22E, on a claim of 1,500 feet (0.46 km) by 600 feet (0.18 km), 0.75 mile (1.21 km) S of Tombstone, on private land. Owned at times, or in part, by the Western Mining Com…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 14 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Adularia
- Aldomarinoite
- Altaite
- Anatase
- Backite
- Bairdite
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Adularia
- Aldomarinoite
- Altaite
- Anatase
- Backite
- Bairdite
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Diorite
- Dunhamite
- Emmonsite
- Fairbankite
- Flaggite
- Galena
- Girdite
- Gold-bearing Galena
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- K Feldspar
- Limestone
- Müllerite
- Murphyite
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Oboyerite
- Opal
- Opal-AN
- Ottoite
- Plumbotellurite
- Poughite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Raspite
- Rodalquilarite
- Schieffelinite
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 1 historical document
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 3389
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (40)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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