USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · La Paz County
Dan Welsh Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 1 mapped adit
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- La Paz
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Ah-Ve-Aha, Apache
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A small former surface and underground Au-Ag mine located on the summit of a ridge near the south boundary of sec. 32 (SE¼ sec. 35 per MRDS), T.6N., R.21W, about 2 miles (3.22 km) S of Moon Mountain, on Native American Reservation land. Mineralizati…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— 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
- 1 adit symbol
- Adit : Moon Mtn. , 1955
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Gold
- Pyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
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)
- mapped adit symbols (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 47159
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (4)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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