USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Pinal County
Superior
Unconfirmed Molybdenum Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Pinal
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Molybdenum
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Magma Superior Mine, Magma MineSuperior Mine, Magma Copper Mine, Superior Copper Mine, Silver Queen Mine, Resolution
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
View individual source records (3)
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
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
- BHP Copper Inc. · Historical operator · 1996
- Rio Tinto plc · Historical operator · 2009
- BHP Billtion Group · Source-reported owner · 2009
- Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. · Source-reported owner · 1996
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Dolomite
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Magnetite
- Stromeyerite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
View all 28 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Dolomite
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Magnetite
- Stromeyerite
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Coronadite
- Cuprite
- Enargite
- Famatinite
- Gold
- Hemimorphite
- Hydrozincite
- Malachite
- Manganite
- Psilomelane
- Rhodochrosite
- Silver
- Tennantite
- Barite
- Galena
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sphalerite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
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