USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Coconino County
Ridenour Mine
Source Corroborated Copper Underground 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Coconino
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A Cu-U-V occurrence/mine located in the SE¼SE¼ sec. 6, T31N, R8W, G&SRM,[[2]] about 14 miles SW of Mohawk Canyon, 2 miles SE of the Colorado River, on National Recreation area land. Operators included the Coconino Copper Co.; W.R. Ridenhour; Ashcroft M…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Vulcans Throne SW , 1967
- Adit : Vulcans Throne SW , 1967
- Adit : Vulcans Throne SW , 1967
View individual source records (5)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Azurite
- Bornite
- Brochantite
- Bromargyrite
- Carnotite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
View all 30 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Azurite
- Bornite
- Brochantite
- Bromargyrite
- Carnotite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Uranium
- commodity:Vanadium
- Covellite
- Digenite
- Galena
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Malachite
- Marcasite
- Metatyuyamunite
- Mudstone
- Naumannite
- Pyrite
- Roscoelite
- Sandstone
- Tangeite
- Tyuyamunite
- Uraninite
- Vésigniéite
- Volborthite
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 adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 53340
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (30)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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