USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
Four Metals Mine
Source Corroborated Copper Underground 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Santa Cruz
- Mining district
- Patagonia District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Hillside Claims, Guajolote Lode, Red Hill Crosscut, Phoenix Claims, Red Mountain Mine, Frisco, Group
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small underground Cu-Ag-Au-Pb-Zn-Mo-Sb-W mine located on 35 (33 ?) unpatented claims in West-central sec. 29, T.23S., R.16E. Near Providencia Canyon on the south flank of Red Hill, 1 mile (1.61 km) east of the Proto Mine; in the head of Provid…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Harshaw , 1958
- Adit : Harshaw , 1958
View individual source records (4)
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. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). 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
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- West Range Co. (Subsidiary Of Noranda Mines Inc.) · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Ferrimolybdite
- Galena
- Gold
- Molybdenite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Ferrimolybdite
- Galena
- Gold
- Molybdenite
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Acanthite
- Albite
- Apatite
- Biotite
- Breccia
- Calcium Amphibole Subgroup
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
- Ferrimolybdite
- Galena
- Hemimorphite
- Hornblende
- Magnetite
- Marcasite
- Molybdenite
- Native Gold
- Oligoclase
- Orthoclase
- Porphyry
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
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 adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 34206
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (30)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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