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Arizona · La Paz County

Golden Star Mine Group

Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface 5 mapped shafts

Key facts

State
Arizona
County
La Paz
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Copper
Verification
Unconfirmed

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Mindat locality description

A former surface and underground Cu-Au-Ag-Fe mine located in the NE¼ sec. 3, T6N, R13W (Salome 15 minute topo map), on land of unknown status. Owned and operated by Mattson & McDonald (1940). Mineralization is high-grade gold with oxidized copper or…

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Additional documented workings

  • Shaft — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 5 shaft symbols
  • Shaft : Cunningham Pass , 1990
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • 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): 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.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • commodity:Copper
  • commodity:Gold
  • commodity:Iron
  • commodity:Silver
  • Hematite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped shaft symbols (5)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

Mindat

Type: Mineralogical locality database

Record: Mindat Locality: 33432

Supports:

  • locality identity
  • reported minerals (5)

A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.

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Documented shaft evidence