USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
Mowry Mine
Unconfirmed Lead Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Santa Cruz
- Mining district
- Harshaw District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Patagonia Mine, Enterprise Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 12 shaft symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- U.S. Mining And Smelting Co. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Kaolin
- Bindheimite
- Chalcopyrite
- Manganite
- Marcasite
- Pyrite
View all 13 reported minerals
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Kaolin
- Bindheimite
- Chalcopyrite
- Manganite
- Marcasite
- Pyrite
- Vanadinite
- Wad
- Wulfenite
- Psilomelane
- Pyrolusite
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 (12)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 1 historical document
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 267988
Supports:
- locality identity
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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