USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Spray Shaft
Unconfirmed Copper Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Warren District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Silver Spray, Spray Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former medium output underground Cu-Pb-Zn-Au-Ag mine located in the North-central sec. 16, T.23S., R.24E. (Bisbee 7.5 minute topo map), approximately 1 mile (1.61 km) W of Lowell, on private land. One of the early mines of the district. The Spray sha…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 29 shaft symbols
- 14 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: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Phelps Dodge Corp. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Silver
View all 22 reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Anglesite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Silver
- Anglesite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Limonite
- Native Copper
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
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 (29)
- mapped adit symbols (14)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33204
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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