USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Carnation Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground 1 mapped shaft
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Mining district
- Cienega District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Empire, Gray Eagle
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A small former surface and underground Cu-Au-Ag mine located on 19 claims in sec. 16 & NE¼ sec. 17, plus in the NW¼ sec. 21, T10N, R18W (Black Peak 15 minute topo map), E of Billy Mack Mountain; S of Giers Mountain, about 11 miles NE of Parker, on BLM-…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- Shaft : Cross Roads , 1959
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- 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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Chrysocolla
- Copper
- Hematite
- Malachite
- Siderite
- Azurite
- Chrysocolla
View all 14 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Chrysocolla
- Copper
- Hematite
- Malachite
- Siderite
- Azurite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Hematite
- Malachite
- Siderite
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 33416
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (8)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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