USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Mohave County
Golconda
Unconfirmed Zinc Underground
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Mohave
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- North Stockton Hill Oro Golconda
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Zn-Cu-Au-Ag-Pb-U occurrence/group of consolidated mines located in the W½ sec. 5 & in the E½ sec. 6, T22N, R17W, G&SRM;, about 2.4 miles SE of Turquoise Mountain, on Bureau of Land Management administered land and/or private land. The propert…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 9 shaft symbols
- 22 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
- Dupont · Source-reported owner · 1975
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
View all 23 reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Uranium
- commodity:Zinc
- Covellite
- Galena
- Gneiss
- Granite
- Muscovite
- Porphyry
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Schist
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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 (9)
- mapped adit symbols (22)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 62670
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (23)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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