USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Arizona · Cochise County
Higgins Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise
- Mining district
- Warren District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Twilight
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A manganese occurrence/claim opened in March 1918. It is located about 0.5 mile (ca. 805 m) WSW from the center of Bisbee, at about 6,100 feet (ca. 1,859 m) of altitude. It is located in the steep limestone bluff directly south of the buildings and mai…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 19 shaft symbols
- 12 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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
Operators / organizations
- Higgins Mining Co., Phelps Dodge Corp. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Silver
- Alabandite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Gold
- Silver
- Alabandite
- Anglesite
- Antlerite
- Baryte
- Bílinite
- Bornite
- Braunite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Vanadium
- Conichalcite
- Coquimbite
- Covellite
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Halotrichite
- Hematite
- Lepidocrocite
- Limonite
- Malachite
- Mottramite
- Murdochite
- Paracoquimbite
- Psilomelane
- Pyrite
- Pyrolusite
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 (19)
- mapped adit symbols (12)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 56143
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (33)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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