USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Pima County
Shamrock Mine
Unconfirmed Lead Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Pima
- Mining district
- Arivaca District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Ref.: US Atomic Energy Commission Preliminary Reconnaissance Report Pima County (1955): 643. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission RME-159 (1970) Preliminary Reconnaissance for Uranium in Pima and Pinal Counties, Arizona, 1950 to 1957: 22. Arizona Depart…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 1 adit symbol
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
- C. Meyers · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Barite
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Galena
- Smithsonite
- Baryte
- Galena
- Limonite
View all 9 reported minerals
- Barite
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Galena
- Smithsonite
- Baryte
- Galena
- Limonite
- Smithsonite
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 188613
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (4)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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