USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
West Side Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Tombstone District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small underground Pb-Ag-Au mine located in the NE ¼ sec. 11, T.20S., R.22E, ½ mile S of Tombstone, on private land. Situated 500 feet SW of the Toughnut and Girard shafts. Mineralization is oxidized, argentiferous and auriferous lead ores i…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 500 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 16 shaft symbols
- 1 adit symbol
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: ., R.22E, ½ mile S of Tombstone, on private land. Situated 500 feet SW of the Toughnut and Girard shafts. Mineralization is oxidized,…
- 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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Wollastonite
- Aurichalcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
View all 25 reported minerals
- Wollastonite
- Aurichalcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Cordierite
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Hemimorphite
- Hessite
- Malachite
- Mimetite
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rosasite
- Smithsonite
- Sphalerite
- Turquoise
- Willemite
- Wollastonite
- 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 (16)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 26190
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (24)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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