USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Holbrook Shaft
Mindat Confirmed Copper Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Warren District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former medium output underground Cu-Pb-Zn-Au-Ag occurrence/mine located in the North-central sec. 16, T23S, R24E, G&SRM;, approximately 1 mile (1.61 km) NW of Lowell, on private property. The Holbrook Mine is a shaft of the Copper Queen Branch of the…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 27 shaft symbols
- 12 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: E, G&SRM;, approximately 1 mile (1.61 km) NW of Lowell, on private property. The Holbrook Mine is a shaft of the Copper Queen Branch…
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Phelps Dodge Corp. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Silver
View all 40 reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Silver
- Anglesite
- Antigorite
- Antlerite
- Aurichalcite
- Azurite
- Bornite
- Calcite
- Carbonatecyanotrichite
- Chalcoalumite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Clinochrysotile
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Cuprite
- Cyanotrichite
- Felsőbányaite
- Gibbsite
- Goethite
- Gypsum
- Halloysite
- Hoganite
- Hydrobasaluminite
- Limonite
- Magnetite
- Malachite
- Meionite
- Muscovite
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 (27)
- mapped adit symbols (12)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 11856
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (32)
- underground workings
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