USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Mystery Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Turquoise District, Courtland-Gleeson District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Minerals Exploration Co.
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small underground Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Au-Gemstone occurrence/mine located on four patented claims in the SE¼ sec. 29 & NE¼ sec. 32, T19S, R25E, G&SRM, and adjoins the Silver Bill on the East. Discovered in 1879 by J. McMann. Produced 1924-1942. Owned …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 35 shaft symbols
- 29 adit 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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Aragonite
- Calcite
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Kaolin
- Limonite
- Pyrolusite
- Anglesite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Aragonite
- Calcite
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Kaolin
- Limonite
- Pyrolusite
- Anglesite
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Silver
- Smithsonite
- Wulfenite
- Anglesite
- Aragonite
- Aurichalcite
- Azurite
- Braunite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gemstones
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Dolomite
- Galena
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Hemimorphite
- Iridescent coating
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
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 (35)
- mapped adit symbols (29)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 16732
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (24)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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