USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Hilltop Mine
Unconfirmed Lead Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- California District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Dunn Shaft, Blacksmith Shaft, Kasper Tunnel, Rhem Adit, Gray
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small surface and underground Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Au-Mo-W-As-Cd occurrence/mine located in secs. 33 & 34, T16S, R30E and secs. 3, 4, 5, T17S, R30E, G&SRM, (Rustler Park 7.5 minute topo map), 6 miles NW of Paradise, about 26 miles S of San Simon near H…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 7 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
- Queen Mining Co. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Clinozoisite
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Gypsum
- Limonite
- Quartz
View all 40 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Clinozoisite
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Gypsum
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Tremolite
- Anglesite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Copper
- Galena
- Gold
- Magnetite
- Psilomelane
- Pyrite
- Pyrolusite
- Scheelite
- Silver
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
- Wulfenite
- Acanthite
- Actinolite
- Alabandite
- Anglesite
- Arsenopyrite
- Azurite
- Calcite
- Caledonite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- Chrysocolla
- Chrysotile
- Clinozoisite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
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 (7)
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: 5588
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (16)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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