USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
State of Texas Mine
Unconfirmed Zinc Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Hartford District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small underground Zn-Pb-Ag-Cu-Au mine located on 1 patented and 6 unpatented claims in the SW ¼ sec. 12 & NW ¼ sec. 13, T.24S., R.20E., on the north side Montezuma Canyon, at approximately 5,700 feet of altitude, near the SE end of the range. …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 4 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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Sparks, Grace M. · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Garnet
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Calcite
View all 16 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Garnet
- Quartz
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Garnet Group
- Hematite
- Hydrozincite
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Willemite
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 (4)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 32764
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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