USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Graham County
Iron Cap Mine
Unconfirmed Lead Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Graham
- Mining district
- Aravaipa District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former surface and underground Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Au-Fluorspar mine located in sec. 19, T5S, R20E, G&SRM, 2 miles (3.22 km) NE of Aravaipa, 0.5 mile (ca. 805 m) N of Landsman Camp, and near the head of Arizona Gulch, in the foothills of the Santa Teresa Mou…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Fluorite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Covellite
- Galena
View all 40 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Fluorite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Covellite
- Galena
- Sphalerite
- Andradite
- Aragonite
- Axinite-(Mn)
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Clinochrysotile
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Covellite
- Creedite
- Epidote
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Gypsum
- Hedenbergite
- Hematite
- Hopeite
- Ilvaite
- Iridescent coating
- Johannsenite
- Kutnohorite
- Magnetite
- Manganbabingtonite
- Manganese-bearing Hedenbergite
- Nekoite
- Pyrite
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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 3335
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (31)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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