USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Centurion Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground 2 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Lady Rose and Alaskite Groups
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small Cu-Au-Ag mine located in the SE¼ sec. 12, T16S, R22E (Dragoon 7.5 minute topo map). First produced 1908. Closed 1944. Owned by Mrs S.J. Landfair (1955) operated intermittently during the period 1911 to 1944 by The Centurion-Arizona Minin…
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.
- 2 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Dragoon , 1985
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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- 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
- Captain Mining Co · Historical operator
- Centurion Arizona Mining Co · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Actinolite
- Alaskite
- Allophane
- Azurite
- Brochantite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcocite
View all 31 reported minerals
- Actinolite
- Alaskite
- Allophane
- Azurite
- Brochantite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chrysocolla
- Diopside
- Feldspar Group
- Fluorite
- Garnet Group
- Gypsum
- Hematite
- Hornblende Root Name Group
- Iridescent coating
- Jarosite
- Limonite
- Magnetite
- Malachite
- Manganese Oxides
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Opal
- Opal-AN
- Quartz
- Serpentine Subgroup
- Tremolite
- 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 (2)
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: 32360
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (31)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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