USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Golden Rule Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Old Terrible, Golden Eagle, Santa Lucia
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former small surface and underground Pb-Zn-Ag-Au-Cu occurrence/mine located in the center of sec. 23, T16S, R23E, ¾ mile South of Manzoro, on the NE foot of the Dragoon Mountains. Discovered 1849. Started in the late 1870's (1877) and closed in 1883,…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 8 shaft symbols
- 3 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): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_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
Operators / organizations
- G. S And L Leasing Co · Historical operator
- Manzoro Mining Co · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Anglesite
- Bornite
- Brochantite
- Bromargyrite
- Calcite
- Caledonite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Acanthite
- Andesite
- Anglesite
- Bornite
- Brochantite
- Bromargyrite
- Calcite
- Caledonite
- Cerussite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Covellite
- Cuprite
- Dolomite
- Galena
- Goethite
- Hematite
- Hemimorphite
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Linarite
- Malachite
- Manganese Dendrites
- Manganese Oxides
- Mimetite
- Minium
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Plancheite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Rose Quartz
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 (8)
- mapped adit symbols (3)
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: 32719
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (40)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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Documented adit evidence