USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Gila County
Hope Mine
Unconfirmed Uranium Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Gila
- Mining district
- Sierra Ancha District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Uranium
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground U-Be mine located in the NE¼ sec. 30, T6N, R14E, about ½ mile E of Rose Creek Lodge and about 4 miles NW of Aztec Peak, on National Forest land. Owned by the Continental Material Corp. of Colorado (1958).
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 12 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
- Arizona Continental Uranium Inc. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Clay
- Gypsum
- Limonite
- Nontronite
- Chalcopyrite
- Fluorite
View all 16 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chlorite
- Clay
- Gypsum
- Limonite
- Nontronite
- Chalcopyrite
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Marcasite
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Sphalerite
- Uraninite
- Uranophane
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 adit symbols (12)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 133247
Supports:
- locality identity
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Documented adit evidence