USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
State of Maine Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Tombstone District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Sierra Minerals Management
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former medium-producing underground Ag-Au-Mn-Cu-Pb occurrence/mine located in West-central sec. 16 & sec. 17, T20S, R22E, G&SRM;, 2.5 miles (ca. 4 km) S of Tombstone, on private land. Owned at times, or in part, by the State of Maine Mining Company, …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 6 shaft 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
- J. Escapule · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Gold
- Anglesite
- Azurite
- Baryte
- Bromine-bearing Chlorargyrite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
View all 23 reported minerals
- Gold
- Anglesite
- Azurite
- Baryte
- Bromine-bearing Chlorargyrite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chlorargyrite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Hematite
- Malachite
- Manganese Oxides
- Native Silver
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- 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 (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Arizona Geological Survey / ADMMR
Type: Historical mine documents
Record: 1 historical document
Supports:
- historical mine identity
- historical mine documentation
Historical documentation does not imply current access or open workings.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 8093
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (22)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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