USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Mohave County
Grand Gulch Mine
Source Corroborated Copper Underground 3 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Mohave
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Adams Patented
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Cu-Pb-Zn-V-Ag-Au occurrence/mine located in the SE¼SE¼ sec. 21 and in the SW¼SW¼ sec. 22, T34N, R14W, G&SRM, 11 miles NE of Pierce Ferry, 1.5 miles E of Grand Wash Cliffs and 1 mile N of North Fork of Pigeon Canyon, on private land within a Bu…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
- Adit : Grand Gulch Bench , 1971
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
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
- Limestone
- Brochantite
- Chalcocite
- Chrysocolla
- Cuprodescloizite
- Malachite
- Azurite
- Brochantite
View all 24 reported minerals
- Limestone
- Brochantite
- Chalcocite
- Chrysocolla
- Cuprodescloizite
- Malachite
- Azurite
- Brochantite
- Chalcocite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Vanadium
- commodity:Zinc
- Copper-bearing Descloizite
- Cotunnite
- Cuprite
- Descloizite
- Limestone
- Malachite
- Sandstone
- Tenorite
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: 37297
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (18)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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