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Arizona · Maricopa County

Lucky Strike

Unconfirmed Fluorine-Fluorite Mixed Underground / Surface 4 mapped shafts

Key facts

State
Arizona
County
Maricopa
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Fluorine-Fluorite
Verification
Unconfirmed

Also known as

  • Mammoth Spar

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

  • Shaft — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 4 shaft symbols
  • Shaft : Wickenburg , 1964
View individual source records (3)

Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Shaft
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
  • MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_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.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Operators / organizations

  • J. A. Campbell · Source-reported owner · 1945

Commodities & minerals

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped shaft symbols (4)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

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