USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Pima County
Mission Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Pima
- Mining district
- Pima District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Mission Porphyry Copper Deposit, East Pima, Mission - San Xavier - Eisenhower, Eisenhower Mine, Palo Verde, Mission ExtensionSan Xavier, East Pima Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Producer): 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.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.) · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chlorite
- Clay
- Diopside
- Garnet
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
View all 18 reported minerals
- Chlorite
- Clay
- Diopside
- Garnet
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Copper
- Cubanite
- Galena
- Hematite
- Magnetite
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
- Tennantite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 4 historical documents
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
View 4 citations
- Mission Mine (2002)
- Mission (1953)
- Mission (1962)
- Mission Mine - Early History (1954)
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
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