USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Maricopa County
Packover Claim
Unconfirmed Mercury Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Maricopa
- Mining district
- Mazatzal Mountains District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- National, Sunflower Group
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
‡Ref.: Ransome, F.L. (1916), Quicksilver Deposits of the Mazatzal Range, Arizona, in Contributions to Economic Geology by F.L. Ransome & H.S. Gale, USGS Bull. 620: 119; AZ Bur. Mines Bull. 122 (1927); MRDS file #10040374. A former surface and underg…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 15 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Tourmaline
- Cinnabar
- Cinnabar
- Jasper
- Pyrite
- Quartz
View all 9 reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Tourmaline
- Cinnabar
- Cinnabar
- Jasper
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Tourmaline
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 (15)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 56991
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (5)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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