USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Pima County
Magonigal Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Pima
- Mining district
- Silver Bell District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Gordon
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
‡Ref.: Keith, Stanton B. (1974), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, Arizona: 143 (Table 4). Dockter, Roger (1976) USGS Field Examination (Magonigal Mine). …
Additional documented workings
-
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
- Shaft : Gap Tank , 1989
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- 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
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Wulfenite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
View all 14 reported minerals
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Wulfenite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Hematite
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Specularite
- Wulfenite
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: 36339
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (8)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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