USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Papago Mine
Source Corroborated Silver Underground 5 mapped shafts 2 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Mining district
- Silver District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A small former underground Pb-Ag-Zn-Fluorspar-Mn-Fe-Mo-V (Cl-Br) mine located in the center of sec. 11, T4S, R23W (protracted), approximately 3,000 feet south of the Red Cloud Mine and near the edge of Black Rock Wash, on BLM-administered land. An earl…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 2 adit symbols
- Shaft : Picacho , 1954
- Shaft : Picacho , 1954
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- W. M. Winn · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
- Silver · primary
- Lead
- Zinc
- Vanadium
- Fluorine-Fluorite
- Iron
- Chlorine
- Bismuth
- Copper
- Manganese
- Molybdenum
Reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Cerargyrite
- Malachite
- Pyrolusite
- Smithsonite
- Vanadinite
View all 30 reported minerals
- Fluorite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Cerargyrite
- Malachite
- Pyrolusite
- Smithsonite
- Vanadinite
- Wulfenite
- Anglesite
- Calcite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Vanadium
- commodity:Zinc
- Fluorite
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Malachite
- Mimetite
- Pyrolusite
- Quartz
- Smithsonite
- Vanadinite
- 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 (5)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 7706
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (21)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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