USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Mohave County
Moss Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Mohave
- Mining district
- San Francisco District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Au-Ag-fluorspar occurrence/mine located in the NW¼SW¼SE¼ sec. 19, T20N, R20W, G&SRM;, 6 miles NW of Oatman and 2 miles North of Silver Creek in the old San Francisco District, on private (patented) lanbd within a Bureau of Land Management admi…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 10 shaft symbols
- 4 adit symbols
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=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Amethyst
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
View all 34 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Adularia
- Amethyst
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Fluorite
- Freibergite Subgroup
- Galena
- Gold
- Greenockite
- Hematite
- Jalpaite
- K Feldspar
- Marcasite
- Monzonite
- Native Gold
- Porphyry
- Propylite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Rose Quartz
- Sphalerite
- Stromeyerite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
- Trachyte
- Tuff
- 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 (10)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 39545
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (33)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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