USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Gila County
Iron Cap Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Gila
- Mining district
- Globe Hills District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Iron Cap and Williams Shafts
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former underground Cu-Ag-U-Au mine located in the NE¼SW¼ sec. 15, T1N, R15E, on both the Great Eastern and Iron Cap veins, about ½ mile S of Copper Hill ghost town site and about 0.7 miles SSW of Black Peak, on private land. The property consists of …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 25 shaft symbols
- 42 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Gentry, Howard · Source-reported owner
- Mc Intosh, H. P. · Source-reported owner
- Tenny, Carl · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Chalcocite
- Cuprite
- Malachite
- Pitchblende
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cuprite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Chalcocite
- Cuprite
- Malachite
- Pitchblende
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cuprite
- Hematite
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Uraninite
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 (25)
- mapped adit symbols (42)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 50642
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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