USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Hamburg Prospect
Unconfirmed Lead Underground 1 mapped shaft 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Mining district
- Silver District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Hamburg Mine, Blake
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Pb-Zn-Ag-Baryte-Fluorspar-Sr-Fe-Mo-V mine located in the center of sec. 1, T4S, R23W (protracted), on BLM-administered land. This mine adjoins the Princess Mine on the South. Started about 1880. Owned at times, or in part, by Willi…
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.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 2 adit symbols
- Adit : Picacho , 1954
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
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: Occurrence
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Barite
- Calcite
- Celestite
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Galena
View all 40 reported minerals
- Barite
- Calcite
- Celestite
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Vanadinite
- Wulfenite
- Acanthite
- Amethyst
- Anglesite
- Aragonite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Celestine
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Barite (Barytes)
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Strontium
- commodity:Vanadium
- commodity:Zinc
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Litharge
- Massicot
- Mimetite
- Minium
- Quartz
- Smithsonite
- 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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 7707
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (29)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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