USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Standard Prospect
Mindat Confirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Cochise District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Au mine within a mine group located in the SW ¼ sec. 27, NE ¼ sec. 33 and the NW ¼ sec. 34, T.14S., R.27E. Owned at times, or in part, by the LeRoy Consolidated Mines Co., Areland Mining Co., VMP Leasing Co., and Bean. Mineralization i…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: A former Zn-Cu-Mo-W (Be) prospect with surface and underground workings located in the SW ¼ sec. 6, T.16S., R.23E. (Dragoon 7.5 minute topo map), about 2.5 miles (4 km) nort…
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Operators / organizations
- Mrs. Thomas Adams · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Orthoclase
- Quartz
- Zoisite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
View all 21 reported minerals
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Orthoclase
- Quartz
- Zoisite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Powellite
- Sphalerite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Epidote
- Galena
- Garnet Group
- Orthoclase
- Powellite
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Zoisite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 32683
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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